The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) distributed financial and logistical assistance for earthquake victims in West ...

1883: Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with the force of 200 megatons of TNT and kills approximately 40,000 people. 1942: Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko arrives in ...

an active volcano close enough for the sisters to smell the ashy smoke and sulfur when it erupts. A Trappist nun walks in nature near the Monastery of Gedono on the island of Java in Indonesia.

61.8 x 104.4 cm. (24.3 x 41.1 in.) ...

61.8 x 104.4 cm. (24.3 x 41.1 in.) ...

The explosions (which could be heard 3,000 miles away) and resulting tsunamis in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra. Also on this date: In 1894, Congress passed the ...

The island is geographically stable; not vulnerable to volcanic eruption, earthquake or tsunami ... Western Indonesia, especially Java, is already densely populated. The East of the country is not as ...

between the Java Sea and Indian Ocean, the gushing mountain generated a series of pyroclastic flows (fast-moving fluid bodies of molten gas, ash and rock) and monstrous tsunamis that swept over nearby ...

The fissure featured in the video opened Tuesday, according to the USGS. The initial eruption began Sunday, in a remote, closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, the USGS said. In a ...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) warned that lava flows from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano could "destroy everything in their paths" as eruptions resumed on Monday night. The eruption on the ...

KILAUEA, Hawaii (Island News) -- Kilauea resumed eruption west of Napau Crater, in the middle East Rift Zone of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The eruption was reported by the USGS on Monday at ...