The images, which were taken at about 6pm local time (10am GMT), is an ominous sign for the locals who have been forced to flee their homes to escape the threat of another eruption. 

Øystein L Andersen‏, a photographer and volcano enthusiast in Bali, said the plume “looks like it contains some ash”. 

Posting the images on Twitter, he said: “Agung volcano just now, seems to have just released a small eruption plume.” 

He later added: “Another photo of the small plume, that was observed at Agung this afternoon. The plume looks like it contained some ash.”

More than 62,000 locals have been evacuated from their homes inside Mount Agung’s evacuation zone following two eruptions late last month. 

Agung blasted volcanic ash thousands of metres into the air on November 25 and has been producing dangerous mudflows known as lahars ever since.

Activity within the Bali volcano subsided last week, though experts warned that another more violent eruption is likely. 

Heather Handley, a volcanologist at Sydney's Macquarie University, explained earlier this week that Mount Agung is "clearly still in an active phase”.

"At all volcanoes we can expect fluctuations in activity,” she told Associated Press. "This does not mean that the threat is over." 

Bali officials have kept Mount Agung’s volcano alert at it maximum level and a state of emergency on the island has been extended until at least December 10.

These latest images will raise concerns that a third eruption could be imminent. 

Volcanic eruptions are almost impossible to forecast accurately, so a good way for scientists to predict whether a volcano is about to erupt is to study its past activity.

Mount Agung last erupted nearly 55 years ago when a series of violent eruptions killed more than 1,100 people. 

The eruptions started with a number of small ash bursts followed by lava flows and more explosive eruptions a month later. 

Agung produced a series of deadly pyroclastic flows in 1963 and there are now fears that history could be about to repeat itself. 

Nengah Tresni, who was 12 when Agung last exploded, told AP: “I'm sure there will be a big eruption. It is just a matter of time.” 

She added: "In the old eruption many people did not expect it to be big because there were small eruptions for a long time and villagers just went to the temple to pray.”

While monitoring technologies have improved exponentially since the previous eruption, authorities are still struggling to persuade locals that they need to evacuate. 

There are still tens of thousands of residents living in Agung’s danger zone who are adamant that they should stay in their villages and put their fate in the hands of the gods.

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