Monsoon rains eroded and finally collapsed the lava dome atop 3,676-meter (12,060-foot) Mount Semeru, causing the eruption, according to National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari.

Mount Semeru, also known as Mahaneru, has erupted several times over the past few centuries. However, its most recent eruption occurred in December 2022, causing smoke flumes to shoot over a mile ...

People fled the eruption on motorcycles ... hazard mitigation agency on Sunday raised the alert level for Mt. Semeru to the highest level. The agency also issued a warning to residents not ...

State-run airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I at Lombok International Airport, West Nusa Tenggara, stated that flight ...

Mount Semeru Monitoring Post reported. "We recommend all people who live surrounding the volcano not to do any activities around and stay away at least 13 kilometers from the eruption range, because ...

Indonesia has recently raised its alert as the country's volcanology authorities have reported hundreds of volcanic activities during the past week. As of Saturday, 17 volcanoes across the Southeast ...

The supervolcano's last eruption was 631,000 years ago. Before then, it erupted 2.1 million and 1.3 million years ago. These eruptions were some of the largest known to man. If it were to erupt ...

Almost a year later, you can now listen to a sonification of the largest eruption of the 21st Century, created using wind data from ESA's Aeolus mission. The volcano had erupted sporadically since ...

To put that into perspective, the 1991 eruption of Pinatubo in the Philippines, arguably the most powerful volcanic eruption in living memory, was rated a 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index ...

Mount Semeru Monitoring Post reported. erecommend all people who live surrounding the volcano not to do any activities around and stay away at least 13 kilometers from the eruption range ...