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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mount Dempo located in Pagar Alam, South Sumatra, erupted again on Saturday, 23rd of 024. Its last eruption was six months ...

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 ...

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) records the latest earthquake in South Papua this Sunday morning, ...

The drills simulated a repeat of the magnitude 9.2 earthquake which struck off the west coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island ...

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 ...

TOKYO -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 jolted off Japan's western Ishikawa Tuesday, according to the country's weather agency.