Mount Merapi (meaning Mountain of Fire ... People choose to live in volcanic areas despite the risks of an eruption. Volcanoes can provide people with many benefits such as: volcanic rock and ...

This PhD will reveal the pre-eruptive priming and triggering processes, as well as the timescales between priming and eruption, for both effusive and explosive eruptive styles at Merapi volcano ...

Hundreds of thousands of victims of the Mount Merapi volcano eruption in central Java face economic and social destruction unless the government carries out a comprehensive recovery plan to help them.

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia--Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed avalanches of hot clouds in eruptions overnight Thursday that forced about 250 residents to flee to temporary shelters and left ash ...

After the eruption, bodies of the victims at Pompeii were famously preserved in a protective shell of ash before they eventually decayed. Since the mid 1800s, the voids that these bodies left ...

Merapi's last major eruption in 2010 killed 347 people. Indonesia, an archipelago of 270 million people, is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity because it sits along the Pacific “Ring of ...

Mount Merapi also erupted in 2010, killing 347 people and displacing 20,000 villagers. The monumental eruption of the ...