JAKARTA--Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert Wednesday after eruptions at Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of feet ...

Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency said Monday that at least 10 people have died as a series of volcanic ...

Indonesian authorities closed an airport and residents left homes near an erupting volcano Thursday due to the dangers of ...

Imagine Mother Nature writing her own disaster movie. Indonesia’s recent volcanic eruption was like that, with signs everyone missed. It was like a Shakespearean tragedy, with the earth as the main ...

On June 15, 1991, the island of Luzon in the Philippines was ground zero for the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 1900s when Mount Pinatubo blew its top. This historic natural event set massive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Natural disasters have a way of reminding us just how unpredictable and powerful nature can be. Some events in history sound like ...

Volcanic eruptions are notoriously hard to predict in advance, but after 10 years of research, one team thinks they have the ...

When people think of explosive natural disasters, they often imagine volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. Few realize that certain lakes can also produce sudden, deadly events that resemble an invisible ...

Introduction -- Global distribution of active volcanoes / Elizabeth Cottrell -- Basaltic lava flow hazard / Andrew J. L. Harris -- Impacts from volanic ash fall / Thomas M. Wilson, Susanna Jenkins, ...

A team of geologists have developed a new method to detect when a volcano may be about to erupt, giving at least eight hours ...