A column of thick ash was spewed 7 km high to the sky from the crater of Mount Sinabung volcano in Sumatra Island of western Indonesia on Sunday, the country's national volcanology agency said.
Flights to and from Bali operated by Qantas Airways, Virgin Australia Airlines and Jetstar Airways were cancelled, and a Jetstar flight between Adelaide and Bali's capital Denpasar was diverted to Darwin in northern Australia.
In the afternoon, Fanuel Garcia, director of the National Institute of Forensic Sciences, said 62 bodies had been recovered and 13 of those had been identified. Guatemala’s national disaster agency later raised the toll to 65.
America: New eruptions at Hawaii volcano send lava closer to power plant
NASA's satellite Aqua recently spotted three active volcanoes simultaneously erupting and unleashing giant plumes of smoke as it passed over a remote archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean. According to NASA, on September 29, the
Jakarta: Two people were killed and 100,000 others displaced after Mount Kelud in East Java, Indonesia, erupted, an official said Friday.The two were killed when their houses collapsed due to the eruption, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho,
Jakarta: At least 16 people were killed and one severely burnt by the hot ash that erupted from Mount Sinabung volcano in North Sumatra in Indonesia, officials said Wednesday.About 200 rescuers will continue their search
Reykjavik, May 22: Iceland closed its main international airport and canceled domestic flights Sunday as a powerful volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam 12 miles (20 kilometers) into the air.The eruption
Tokyo, March 13: A volcano in southwestern Japan erupted Sunday after nearly two weeks of relative silence, sending ash and rocks up to four kilometres into the air, a local official said.It was not immediately
Mount Merapi, Oct 5 (AP) The most powerful eruption in a century from a volatile Indonesian volcano has killed at least 78 people and raised the death toll to 122.Dozens of bodies were found today
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