No let-up in Indonesia mud flow despite concrete plug
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SIDOARJO, Indonesia  - A torrent of mud that has inundated villages on Indonesia's Java island shows no signs of abating despite efforts to plug it by dropping hundreds of concrete balls into its source, an official said on Tuesday.
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A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck Indonesia's Mollucas islands, but no tsunami warning has been issued, the country's meteorology and geophysical agency said on Tuesday.
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The Matilija Dam isn't much of a dam anymore &#151; on rainy days, it looks more like a waterfall. A pile of sediment has built up so high behind the dam that when just an inch of rain falls, water spills over in glistening cascades.
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Indonesian engineers temporarily halted an attempt to plug a fissure that has been gushing mud for nine months, after a steel cable hoisting cement balls into the crater broke Saturday, officials said.
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Huge bursts of water have been shooting out of the ground in homes and at least one abandoned restaurant hundreds of metres away from swathes of land submerged by a mud volcano on Indonesia&#39;s Java island.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 5--THERE'S A little mud on Pueblo's face following a small sewage spill last week, but it's not an embarrassment.
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Landslides triggered by days of heavy rain in eastern Indonesia killed at least 13 people and buried scores more beneath the mud, a top provincial official said Saturday.
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Indonesian engineers successfully dropped several large concrete balls into a fissure Monday to try to stem a gushing mud eruption that has engulfed hundreds of homes and displaced 11,000 people.
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Floods in the Indonesian capital have killed at least nine people and made nearly 200,000 people homeless, with the deluge of muddy brown water up to 4 metres (13 feet) deep in some areas of Jakarta, officials said on Sunday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Help finally came from  the sky on Sunday for Indonesian villages washed flat by the  tsunami a week ago, but no amount of aid could stop the loss of  life.
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Indonesia may build huge embankments in  the tsunami-ravaged province of Aceh to prevent a repeat of the  disaster that killed more than 117,000 people last December,  Planning Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said on Friday.
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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono leaves a meeting with editors in Cibubur, West Java. His landslide victory was confirmed yesterday. Photo: AP.
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By PETER GUINTA  When wild ocean waves are daily undermining the house foundation and washing away patio furniture, it may be difficult for that homeowner to remain patient.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Help finally came from  the sky on Sunday for Indonesian villages in an area washed  flat by the tsunami a week ago, but it grew clearer no amount  of aid could stop more loss of life throughout the disaster  zone.
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Denver mining giant Newmont has not polluted a bay near one of its gold mines, according to a study released by Indonesia&#39;s Environmental Ministry, in a finding that could
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An strong undersea earthquake on  Thursday off central Indonesia&#39;s Nusa Tenggara island chain  sparked panic and prompted a brief tsunami warning, but there  were no reports of casualties or major damage.
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MOGOL, Indonesia  - Landslides and floods triggered by heavy rain have left more than 120 people dead or missing on Indonesia's Java island, as rescuers struggled on Thursday to pull out bodies buried under thick mud.