In early January 2025, volcanic activity increased at several volcanoes. This is unsurprising since Indonesia is on the ...

Mount Marapi in West Sumatra erupted again on Saturday morning, January 4, 2025, spewing a 1,000-meter-high ash column.

Filming the BBC's landmark series Asia took its crew on a four-year-long odyssey from the open ocean to the "roof of the ...

# To live daily in perpetual fear of the deadly consequences of something that may or may not happen and, anyway, may not affect one individually, is impossible if people are to remain sufficiently ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at tsunamis. Tsunamis are formed by a displacement of water – a landslide, earthquake, volcanic eruption, or slippage of the boundary between two of the earth’s ...

“Due to volcanic ash caused by the Mount Lewotobi eruption in Indonesia ... a tsunami that struck the coasts of the main Java and Sumatra islands, killing more than 400 people.

Regarding Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra, the FCDO recommends tourists ... The country has just witnessed its second volcanic eruption in recent weeks, indicating increased volcanic activity.

BMKG meteorology deputy Guswanto said that among the regions in the archipelago, areas in Sumatra ... when rainwater mixes with volcanic materials from a volcanic eruption. These volcanic ...

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) announced that the government built thousands of houses for disaster victims ...

and 2,160 villages at risk of volcanic eruptions. The population residing in these disaster-prone areas is estimated at 51 million families. The villages are spread from Aceh, North Sumatra, West ...

Mourners across Asia light candles and remember the 220,000 victims of the 2004 tsunami, sharing stories of survival and loss.

On Boxing Day in 2004, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off Sumatra, leading to a deadly ... coast experienced a "small tsunami" after a volcanic eruption in Tonga. Depending on the earthquake's ...