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Indonesia’s Laki-laki volcano on Flores Island erupts, killing nine people

Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters At least nine people died after Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki in eastern Indonesia erupted on Sunday, spewing explosive plumes of lava and forcing authorities to evacuate several nearby villages, officials said on Monday. Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, located on Flores Island in East Nusa Tenggara province, erupted on Sunday at 23.57 local time, belching […]

Iceland volcano erupts, spewing lava fountains

Copenhagen, Denmark Reuters A volcano in south-western Iceland erupted on Thursday, the meteorological office said, spraying red-hot lava and smoke in its sixth outbreak since December. The total length of the fissure was about 3.9 kilometres and had extended by 1.5 kilometres in about 40 minutes, the Icelandic Met Office, which is tasked with monitoring […]

Eruption of Indonesia’s Mt Ibu forces seven villages to evacuate

Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters A volcano on the remote Indonesian island of Halmahera has spectacularly erupted, spewing a grey ash cloud into the sky, and people from seven nearby villages have been evacuated, authorities said on Sunday. Mt Ibu erupted on Saturday evening, sending ash four kilometres high, as streaks of purple lightning flashed around its […]

Indonesia to permanently relocate 10,000 people after Ruang volcano eruptions

Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters The Indonesian Government will permanently relocate almost 10,000 residents after a series of explosive eruptions of the Ruang volcano has raised concerns about the dangers of residing on the island in future, a minister said on Friday. About 9,800 people live on Ruang island, in the province of North Sulawesi, but in […]

Hundreds evacuated after Indonesia’s Ruang volcano erupts

Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters At least 800 people in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province have been evacuated after multiple eruptions of the area’s Ruang volcano, which for days has spewed lava and ash clouds into the sky, the country’s volcanology agency said on Wednesday. The volcano, located on Ruang island about 100 kilometres from the provincial capital […]

Iceland volcano still pouring out fountains of lava

Copenhagen, Denmark Reuters A volcano in Iceland that erupted on Saturday for the fourth time since December was still spewing smoke and bright orange lava into the air on Monday although infrastructure and a nearby fishing town were safe for now, authorities said. Magma had been accumulating underground on the Reykjanes peninsula near Iceland’s capital […]

Iceland volcano erupts again, spewing fountains of lava

Copenhagen, Denmark Reuters A volcano in Iceland erupted for the fourth time since December on Saturday, the country’s meteorological office said, spewing smoke and bright orange lava into the air in sharp contrast against the dark night sky. Livestreams from the area showed fountains of molten rock soaring from fissures in the ground after authorities […]

Iceland volcano erupts with lava fountains, disrupts heating and roads

North of Sylingarfell, Iceland Reuters A volcano in south-western Iceland erupted on Thursday for the third time since December, spraying streams of lava up to 80 metres into the air and triggering an emergency warning as thousands of households lost heating in the middle of winter. Bright orange molten rock spewed from cracks in the […]

Icelandic volcano eruption eases, but risk remains

Reykjavik, Iceland Reuters A volcanic eruption in Iceland that had threatened to engulf a seaside town appeared to subside on Tuesday, although authorities and geologists warned that danger still persisted. A flow of red-hot lava on Sunday reached the outskirts of Grindavik, a fishing town of some 4,000 residents, setting three houses ablaze but causing […]

Iceland volcano recedes after “black day” of town fires

Reykjavik, Iceland Reuters A volcano that erupted in south-west Iceland for the second time in less than a month appeared to be significantly less active on Monday despite indications of magma still flowing underground. “A black day” read the front page headline of Icelandic daily Morgunbladid across an image of bright-orange lava fountains and houses […]