Over the past week, the volcano, which crosses Lumajang Regency and Malang Regency, East Java, has erupted 42 times. Semeru ...

The 1883 Krakatoa volcano erupted with a force of 200 megatons of TNT. By comparison, the bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 had a force of 20 kilotons, or nearly 10,000 times ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities ordered people living near a volcano to leave their homes on Friday and a major city closed its airport after the 5,500 meter (18,000 ft) peak sent a column ...

Learn more about the area around Mount Tambora and how, even though it was once the site of the largest eruption on record, the next massive eruption probably won't come from there.