At least 14 people have died and 100 were injured after the volcano erupted in Indonesia’s East Java province on Saturday. Reports say that at least 300 families were evacuated following the eruption, and at least 11 villages were buried in ash. Locals sprinted to get away from the debris and burning hot lava that travelled up to 11km over the weekend. Experts say Mount Semeru is in a near-permanent state of eruption and it regularly spews ash – it last erupted in January, and there were no casualties. But the collapse of the volcano’s dome after days of rain is a “pretty significant increase in intensity,” said Campbell Biggs from Darwin’s Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre. Indonesia is no stranger to this sort of thing – it sits between 2 continental plates in an area known as the Ring of Fire that’s known for its high levels of volcanic activity.