Yogyakarta. Mount Merapi, located on the border of the Special Region of Yogyakarta and Central Java, has shown an increase ...

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia--Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed avalanches of hot clouds in eruptions overnight Thursday that forced about 250 residents to flee to temporary shelters and left ash ...

Ash from the eruption blanketed several villages and nearby towns, Humaida said. Cloudy weather obscured views of the peak on Monday morning. Mount Merapi is the most active of more than 120 ...

Thousands of people were earlier forced to evacuate after the country’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi, erupted in January. In 2018, the eruption of Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano caused a ...

Mount Merapi also erupted in 2010, killing 347 people and displacing 20,000 villagers. The monumental eruption of the ...

and Mount Merapi as eruptions continue to pose risks to local communities. BNPB spokesperson Abdul Muhari reported that Mount Ibu in Ibu sub-district, West Halmahera, North Maluku, erupted again ...

Merapi is located in one of the most densely ... People choose to live in volcanic areas despite the risks of an eruption. Volcanoes can provide people with many benefits such as: volcanic rock ...

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.