According to monitoring data, eruption columns varied in height, ranging between 500m and 1,200m. Semeru, which rises 3,676m ...

Borobudur’s significance declined sharply, not only from volcanic damage but also due to the fall of its patron dynasty and ...

STORY: About 2,500 people have been forced to evacuate on the Indonesian island of Java over its erupting volcano, Mount Semeru. Reuters video shows villagers desperately trying to flee, and homes ...

Activity on the Indonesian volcano Mount Merapi appears has calmed down but scientists are warning it still poses a threat. Lava is continuing to flow down the sides of the mountain although the ...

Rescuers were sifting through smoldering debris and thick mud in search of survivors a day after the highest volcano on Java island erupted with fury, killing at least 14 people with searing gas and ...

SLEMAN, Indonesia — Indonesia’s Mount Merapi spewed clouds of ash into the air in a new eruption Thursday, a top vulcanologist said, as the death toll from an earlier eruption rose to 34. Television ...

People living beneath the shadow of the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java have been fleeing an eruption which has spewed plumes of ash into the air, blanketing surrounding villages. The ...

JAKARTA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A volcano erupted in Indonesia on Sunday 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 ...

The road winds gently up the mountain from the town of Lembang on Indonesia's main island of Java. The half-hour journey takes you through forests full of giant trees rising from the fertile volcanic ...

LUMAJANG, Indonesia — The death toll following the eruption of the highest volcano on Indonesia's most densely populated island of Java has risen to 13, with seven people still missing, officials said ...