More than 800 displaced people have taken refuge at a Wesleyan Bible School campus near Mount Merapi.
75,000 people have been displaced as the evacuation zone has been expanded to 12 miles and the volcano shows no sign of settling down.
Around 5:30 pm EST on Tuesday, January 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit just 10 miles west of the capital city, where more than 2 million people live.
Two powerful storms in successive weeks left more than 800 people dead and affected a reported 7 million people in the Philippines.