How Indians survived TobaA gigantic volcanic eruption at Lake Toba in Indonesia 74,000 years ago, is believed to have plunged Earth into a 1,000-year-long chill that snuffed out early humans in Asia a...

Above the noise of the boat engine, there was quiet, Geoff Hopkins remembered. There was no rumble, no roar to signal that the White Island volcano had awakened.The crater he’d just circled with his...

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New Zealand police said early on Tuesday they did not expect to find any more survivors from a volcanic eruption that killed at least five people, injured up to 20 and left an unknown number unaccount...

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A volcano on a small New Zealand island frequented by tourists erupted with a large plume of ash and steam on Monday, killing one person and leaving dozens of others missing or injured.Police deputy c...

Indonesia on Thursday raised the danger level for an island volcano that triggered a tsunami over the weekend, killing at least 430 people in Sumatra and Java, and widened its no-go zone.The volcanolo...

Body bags were laid out along the shattered coastline as Indonesian authorities stepped up efforts to collect the dead and save the injured Monday in the aftermath of a tsunami that was apparently tri...

Thousands of soldiers, police and government personnel as well as volunteers are working to find victims of an Indonesian tsunami. At least 281 people died and more than 1,000 were injured when the wa...

The tsunami that killed hundreds of people at Sumatra and Java in Indonesia late on Saturday is a reminder that such destructive waves are not always caused by earthquakes.This disaster, which struck ...