Over recent years there has been a paradigm shift in understanding how magma is stored and the processes that mobilise magma and enable it to erupt. Advances in microanalytical techniques have ...

LOCAL residents have been warned to stay away from their homes in Indonesia after a massive volcano began erupting. Massive plumes of hot ash blocked out the sun after the volcano suddenly blew its ...

Mount Merapi has erupted at regular intervals since 1854, but this hasn't stopped thousands of people from settling on its slopes. The nearby city of Yogyakarta has a population of 2.4million yet sits ...

The rumbling sound could be heard several kilometres away as the volcano erupted, sending hot ash 600 metres into the sky. Indonesia’s most active volcano has erupted with its biggest lava flow in ...

The 9,737ft mountain is about 18 miles from Yogyakarta city centre on Java Island. Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed avalanches of hot clouds on Thursday morning as hundreds more residents were ...

Thick plumes of smoke and ash rose above Indonesia’s Mount Merapi on Saturday, March 11, after it erupted, forcing authorities to halt tourism and mining activities in the area, local media said.

I've been trying to update on the evolving situation at Merapi all day, but the news is just too fast and too tragic to keep up. I'll try to keep updating here as I find out more, but I can only hope ...

Merapi is showing no signs of slowing down, but some of the eruptive activity has changed in its character. The first reports of lava at the summit area came in overnight, meaning that this eruption ...

The death toll following the eruption of Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano has risen to 25, officials say, amid fears of fresh eruptions. Experts told the BBC that the ash levels had subsided a little, ...

At least 64 people have been killed in the latest eruption of Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano - more than doubling the death toll since it became active again last week. Dozens are being treated for ...