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Lava is flowing from rumbling Mount Merapi, Indonesia's most active volcano.

Luckily for local people, it stopped far away from any inhabited areas on its slopes and in the foothills.

Gunung Merapi, or Fiery Mountain, is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the Pacific Ring of Fire and has been rumbling for weeks. Experts have said an eruption could come anytime.

But authorities have not yet raised the alert level from two to one, which would require the immediate evacuation of people living under the volcano.

Indonesia, which has the world's highest density of volcanoes, has already moved about 1,300 people away from Merapi, but officials put the total number of residents on and near the mountain at around 14,000, which includes villages in Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces.

Merapi killed 70 people in a 1994 eruption and 1,300 in 1930.

Villagers living on the slopes or in the shadows of Mount Merapi say they will stay put until nature sends signals, or the government forces them to leave. Many fear losing property and livestock if they go.

Residents say signals would include lightning around the mountain's peak or animals moving down its slopes.

And once again, many will suffer due to the ignorance and cultural problems that exist in the area!