A tsunami alert has been issued after a volcano erupted in Indonesia, sending ash thousands of feet into the air. Ruang Mountain, an island in the north of the country, has had at least five large eruptions in the last 24 hours.
Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert Wednesday after eruptions at Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of feet high. Officials ordered more than 11,000 people to leave the area. The volcano on the northern side of Sulawesi island had at least five large
A powerful earthquake has shaken Taiwan, causing buildings to collapse and triggering a tsunami. The quake was so strong that it rocked the entire island early Wednesday morning and footage has shown entire buildings toppling. Buildings in the eastern city of Hualien
An earthquake rocked the entire island of Taiwan early Wednesday, collapsing buildings in a southern city and sparking a tsunami warning for southern Japanese islands. Video and images on social media showed buildings shaken off their foundations. The U.S. Geological Survey put
The people in the little town of Sheerness in Kent are on edge. It’s not the cost of energy bills or groceries that’s unnerving them, nor is it apprehension over an influx of tourists in the upcoming summer months that they fear.
After a series of major earthquakes rocked Japan on Monday, the government downgraded its highest-level tsunami alert but warned residents not to return home as deadly waves and aftershocks could still linger. The Japan Meteorological Agency reported more than a dozen strong
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to the media about the situation following earthquake (Image: Getty) A major tsunami warning was issued and residents told to evacuate their homes to seek shelter on “higher ground or on top of buildings”. Yoshimasa Hayashi,
Japanese authorities issued tsunami alerts and evacuation announcements Monday after a series of earthquakes shook the west part of the main island. A 7.6 magnitude earthquake was reported around 4 p.m., the strongest of more than a dozen documented by the Japan
A “major tsunami warning” for a broad area of central Japan has been issued in the wake of a powerful earthquake. The warning is uring people to quickly leave areas of the Asian country’s western coast, including in the prefectures of Ishikawa,
Russia is on tsunami alert after a huge magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan. Last Quake, an independent scientific organization and provider of real-time earthquake information, tweeted: “M6.5 occurred 113km SE of Kuril’sk (Russian Federation) 10 min ago (local