Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert Wednesday after eruptions at Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of feet high. The volcano on the northern side of Sulawesi island had at least five large eruptions in the past 24 hours, Indonesia's Centre for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation said. Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency said residents will be relocated to Manado, the …
A magnitude-6.0 earthquake struck off northeastern Japan's Fukushima region on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, but no tsunami warning was issued. Wednesday's magnitude-7.4 quake damaged dozens of buildings in Taiwan and prompted tsunami warnings as far as Japan and the Philippines. Japan's biggest earthquake on record was a massive magnitude-9.0 undersea jolt in March 2011 off Japan's northeast coast, …
Indonesia lifted a tsunami alert Tuesday following a magnitude 7.1 undersea earthquake that hit off Mentawai Island, triggering panic in a region prone to fatal quakes but apparently causing no major damage or casualties. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake was centered 170.4 kilometres southeast of Teluk Dalam, a coastal town in the South Nias Regency, North Sumatra province, at a depth …
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake undersea rocked western Indonesia on Monday morning but it did not trigger a tsunami alert. A magnitude 5.6 earthquake on November 21 killed at least 331 people and injured nearly 600 in West Java's Cianjur city. In 2004, an extremely powerful Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a …
