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Jakarta: Coastal residents near Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano have been warned to keep away from beaches amid fears it could trigger a new tsunami. On Saturday, giant waves crashed into coastal towns on the islands of Sumatra and Java, killing at least 222 people and injuring 843. It is thought that volcanic activity set off […]
Jakarta: A volcano erupted in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province on Sunday, spewing a column of ash measuring 7.5 km to the sky, a disaster agency official said. Mount Soputan erupted twice — first at 7.43 a.m. and the second at 8.57 a.m., an agency spokesman told Xinhua news agency. Ashes were spread toward south west […]
Guatemala City: At least 25 people were killed, 20 others injured and some 1.7 million residents have been affected because of the eruption of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano, the most violent in recent years, according to government authorities. The volcanic eruption on Sunday spewed a river of red, hot lava and belched thick clouds of […]
Jakarta: Indonesian authorities have raised the alert level for Bali’s Mount Agung to its highest level on Monday over fears of an imminent major eruption and have closed the island’s international airport until Tuesday. Thick ash started shooting upto 3,400 metres into the air above the mountain’s summit on Saturday, driving east and southeast along […]
Washington: Lusi, the world’s largest mud eruption that began on the Indonesian island of Java in 2006, is not stopping any time soon as deep underground it is connected to a nearby volcanic system, scientists have determined. The scorching magma from the Arjuno-Welirang volcano has essentially been “baking” the organic-rich sediments underneath Lusi, said the […]
Tokyo: A volcano in Japan erupted early on Wednesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. No one was injured. Mt. Shinmoe, one of the 50 active volcanos constantly under watch of the agency, erupted around 5.34 a.m. (local time) and the plume rose some 300 meters above the crater, said the agency, Xinhua reported. It was […]
Karangasem (Indonesia): The number of people evacuated over the possible eruption of Mount Agung volcano in the Indonesian island of Bali, the country’s major tourist destination, crossed 144,000 on Friday. Those evacuated were housed in hundreds of shelters across nine districts on the island. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho of the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB) […]
Washington: Reconstruction of timing and related radiative forcing of nearly 300 individual volcanic eruptions dated as far as the early Roman period shows that large volcanic eruptions were drivers of climate change, says new study. The study was led by scientists from the Desert Research Institute (DRI), US. “Using new records, we are able to […]
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