The road winds gently up the mountain from the town of Lembang on Indonesia's main island of Java. The half-hour journey takes you through forests full of giant trees rising from the fertile volcanic ...

Mount Semeru in East Java erupted again on Feb 17,2026, with an ash column 800m above peak. It has erupted 18 times in a week, 338 times in 2026 so far. PVMBG issues Level III alert and safety advisor ...

The first eruption occurred at 12:28 a.m. local time (1728 GMT Tuesday), producing an ash column that rose about 600 meters above the peak. The ...

Mount Semeru in East Java erupted again on February 18, 2026, with ongoing activity at Level III. PVMBG issued safety advisories for nearby areas, and Semeru leads Indonesia's volcanoes in eruption co ...

JAKARTA — Indonesian authorities said on Thursday they had helped more than 170 climbers caught by Mount Semeru’s sudden eruption a day earlier to return to safety as the seismic activity of the ...

A research group has revealed through seismic wave analysis that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau—the world's largest oceanic plateau—was extensively altered by massive volcanic ...

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