On May 29, 2006, the earth in the Sidoarjo opened up, ejecting pungent, steaming hot mud that swallowed villages and ...

JAKARTA — A volcano erupted in Indonesia on Sunday (Dec 4) spewing a cloud of ash 15 km into the sky and forcing the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people, authorities said, as they issued their highest ...

Harwati clasped her hands and offered a prayer on the edge of a sludge lake on the Indonesian island of Java, as dozen of residents gathered to mark two decades since mud volcano eruptions began ...

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JAKARTA--Thousands of residents in Indonesia’s East Java were on high alert on Monday after a violent eruption at the ...

Japan's Meteorological Agency said on Sunday confirmed that there was no Tsunami impact from the Mount Semeru volcano that erupted on 4 December in Indonesia, public broadcaster NHK said. Indonesian ...

Mount Merapi, also called the Mount Fuji of Java. (Photo courtesy of Mount Fuji Research Institute, Yamanashi Prefectural Government) Researchers at a Mount Fuji research institute are to begin ...