Indonesia Drops Balls Into Volcano
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SURABAYA, Indonesia - 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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ROME - Lava poured down the slopes of a volcano on the tiny Sicilian island of Stromboli for a second day Wednesday as authorities continued to monitor eruption activity.
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A massive earthquake that shook Indonesia's Sumatra island last week triggered more activity in three volcanoes in the area, but all have since calmed down, the head of the country's volcanological survey said on Monday.
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A gargantuan earthquake centered off the western end of Indonesia unleashed a series of tsunamis Sunday that crashed into coastal towns, fishing
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Soldiers wearing heat-retardant clothes and shoes braved searing gas clouds Thursday in an attempt to free two men trapped in an underground shelter covered with lava and debris shot from Indonesia&#039;s most active volcano, officials said.
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang  Yudhoyono has formed a national team led by the energy minister  to tackle an unfolding environmental disaster caused by mud  pouring from an exploratory oil well.
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MOUNT ST. HELENS -- The plane is a speck of mica in the volcano&#39;s plume. It cuts back and forth through the cloud, battling the updrafts, downdrafts and turbulent air currents that form over a hot, heaving crater.
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Pressure at a simmering Indonesian volcano on Java island escalated Friday, a geologist warned, as armed police forced some defiant villagers to evacuate ahead of a potential eruption.
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Smoke and ash from land-clearing fires in Indonesia blanketed a large swath of the country's west on Monday, sending air quality levels plummeting there and in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia, officials said.
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang   Yudhoyono has formed a national team led by the energy minister   to tackle an unfolding environmental disaster caused by mud   pouring from an exploratory oil well.
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A massive earthquake that shook  Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra island last week triggered more activity in  three volcanoes in the area, but all have since calmed down,  the head of the country&#39;s volcanological survey said on Monday.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - In a game overshadowed by deaths of thousands throughout Southeast Asia due to earthquakes and tidal waves, a capacity crowd of more than 80,000 packed Jakartaâs Bung Karno Stadium on Tuesday to see Liew Kit Kong score a goal in
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The ash and boulders had been building up since an eruption in July, high on the slopes of the Mayon volcano. Typhoon Durian's blasts of wind and drenching rain raked it all down in a deadly black wall of debris.
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Indonesians saw an object with a tail of fire hurtling toward earth near their capital early Sunday before hearing a loud explosion.
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After a week of gentle rumblings, Mount St. Helens broke open today with a small eruption shortly after noon Pacific time, tossing up a plume of ash and smoke.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Magma continued to push into Mount St. Helens, where it was building a lava dome in the volcano crater, scientists said Monday.
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More than 8,000 villagers are evacuated from the slopes of a volcano erupting in east Indonesia.