Indonesian officials say rescuers have recovered 16 bodies under tons of mud and rocks or that were swept away in flash ...

Torrential rain unleashed flooding and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island, killing 20 people and leaving at least two ...

SRI LANKA, — This December marks the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in ...

Now, a seismologist who was on duty at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii when the disaster struck has revealed to Newsweek the inside story of how events played out that fateful day, as his ...

The earthquake which rocked Padang ... of stress on one of the earth's great plate boundaries to the west of Sumatra in Indonesia. For more than 200 years the collision between the Indian Ocean ...

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia's Sumatra on Friday. The United States Geological Survey said the shallow quake hit at 12:30 near the island of Nias, about 250 ...

In 2004, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 people across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia. What's the latest on the ...

There is a ship washed ashore," said Dwikorita Karnawati, head of Indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency. A 2004 tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra ...

Search and rescue teams in Indonesia have so far retrieved 310 bodies after Tuesday's 5.6-degree tremor that hit the Cianjur region in the country’s West Java province, it was reported Friday.

Mount Marapi, in Agam district of the province of West Sumatra ... the danger of eruption.” Indonesia, an archipelago of 282 million people, is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity ...

By Jin Yu Young and Hasya Nindita At least 10 people were killed when a volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted, officials said on Monday, warning that there would be a greater risk of earthquakes in ...

She said that the BMKG had also mapped 13 zones in Indonesia with the highest potential to be hit by megathrust earthquakes. Four of Indonesia's five big islands, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Papua ...