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Indonesian authorities on Wednesday ordered hundreds of villagers to evacuate following multiple eruptions of a remote island volcano, raising fears it could collapse into the sea and trigger a ...
The death toll from a tsunami that hit the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra after a volcano erupted rose to at least 280 on Monday, officials said.
Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert Wednesday after eruptions at Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of feet high. Officials ordered more than 11,000 people to leave the area. The volcano ...
A massive tsunami with waves up to 30 m (100 ft) high, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami after the Boxing Day holiday, or as the Asian Tsunami, [10] devastated communities along the surrounding coasts of the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries, violently in Aceh , and severely in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu , and Khao Lak ...
Tsunami swept the coastal areas of the Mentawai Islands, off the west coast of Sumatra 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami: 28 September 2018: Palu Large earthquake near Donggala caused a tsunami that funneled into a bay rising high at Palu, Sulawesi, Indonesia 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami: 22 December 2018: Banten – Lampung
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake caused a tsunami around west and central Java on July 17, 2006 and killed 668 people. [8] The 2010 Mentawai earthquake and tsunami occurred on October 25, 2010, severely damaging Western Sumatra and the Mentawai islands, killing 408 people and leaving 303 missing. [9]
JAKARTA (Reuters) -A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck west of Indonesia's Sumatra Island on Tuesday, Indonesia's geophysics agency (BMKG) said, triggering a tsunami warning for around two hours.
In tsunami prone regions, strong earthquakes serve as familiar warnings, and this is especially true for earthquakes in Indonesia. Previous estimates of the tsunami hazard for the Java coastline may have minimized the risk to the area, and to the northwest along the Sumatran coast, the risk is substantially higher for tsunami, especially near ...