Mourners grieve as they gather to pray for Iran’s slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the second day of funeral ceremonies at the Grand Mosalla in Tehran on July ...

An eruption of Mount Semeru on Saturday left a sand miner with severe burns after he was struck by superheated volcanic ...

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At least three hikers were killed and five injured after a group of climbers were caught up in a volcano eruption on Indonesia's Mount Dukono. Authorities launched an urgent mission to rescue a group ...

The volcanic activity of Mount Merapi in Indonesia has shown a significant escalation with a record of three hot cloud emissions on Sunday morning, April 12, 2026. Over the past week, there have been ...

Mount Merapi, located between Yogyakarta and Central Java, erupted again early Monday, producing two pyroclastic flows that traveled up to 1.6 kilometers toward the southwest, according to Indonesian ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Center for Research and Development of Geological Disaster Technology (BPPTKG) in Yogyakarta reported an uptick in volcanic activity at Mount Merapi on Monday, March 9, 2026.

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano sent lava soaring 400 feet into the air last week, resuming an intermittent eruption that has been ongoing for the past year. This is the 37th time the volcano has erupted ...

Two major volcanic eruptions have occurred within days of each other—one in Indonesia and another in Ethiopia. Indonesia’s Mount Semeru burst into activity on November 22, followed a day later by ...

Semeru volcano — the tallest volcano on Java at 3,676 meters — erupted on the afternoon of November 19, 2025, with pyroclastic flows racing at high speed more than 8.5 kilometers down its slopes, as ...