YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's volatile Mount Merapi volcano has unleashed a river of lava that flowed 1,400 meters (4,590 feet) down its slopes. Merapi, on the island of Java, has entered ...

The volcano's last major eruption in 2010 killed more than 300 people and forced the evacuation of some 280,000 residents. Indonesia's Mount Merapi, one of the world's most active volcanoes, erupted ...

Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are common in Indonesia as the archipelago is located on the Ring of Fire, an arc around most of the rim of the Pacific Ocean where seismic and volcanic activity ...

Mount Merapi, Indonesia's most active volcano, erupted Sunday. About a quarter-million people live in Merapi's immediate vicinity. Civilians, many of whom live on the volcano's slopes, were advised to ...

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Dozens of people have died, hundreds are missing and many more homes were destroyed after separate volcanic eruptions in Hawaii and Guatemala that made headlines worldwide in recent months. And ...