On Wednesday, devotees gathered at the Hok Lay Kiong temple in Bekasi, West Java, to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year, known locally as ‘Imlek’. The festival marks the beginning of the Year of the ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

The death toll from a landslide on Indonesia's main island of Java rose to 25 as rescuers found three more bodies on Friday, ...

Volcanic Ash Ejection as Far as 1 Kilometer The eruption of Mount Semeru on the border of Lumajang Regency, East Java, is still ongoing until Wednesday morning, January 8, 2025. West Sumatra's Mount ...

However, there is no plan to evacuate the residents so far. "Today's eruption has not yet affected the residents directly. But we have deployed personnel just in case evacuation is needed," he ...

“The lava was spotted two kilometers away from the eruption center,” Geological Agency head Muhammad Wafid said in a statement. Images from the volcano monitoring post showed a bright red ...

The Yellowstone Caldera is a 70 by 45 kilometre-wide crater in northwestern Wyoming, blasted out of the Earth’s crust some 640,000 years ago in a cataclysmic eruption. It was an Earth-shaking event.

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The 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak Volcano, Kuril Islands, viewed from the International Space ... [+] Station. A new study says that a similar eruption was behind a cooling event with worldwide ...

Friday’s tremor in Afar resulted in fears of volcanic eruptions after smoke came from vents in the Dofen volcano, signaling potential volcanic activity. “The government is closely monitoring ...

Mount Merapi, located on the border of Yogyakarta and Central Java, emitted 17 lava flows with a maximum ... Volcanic material from explosive eruptions could potentially reach a radius of 3 km from ...