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Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said that all 843 residents living in Ruang island, where the volcano is located, have been moved to Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province.
The BNPB declared a 14-day state of emergency in West Sumatra [14] and distributed a total of Rp 3.2 billion in aid to local governments affected by the floods. [15] They were also involved in searching for missing people in areas near rivers and clearing important roads from large rocks, debris and mud due to flooding.
JAKARTA (Reuters) -A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck west of Indonesia's Sumatra Island on Tuesday, Indonesia's geophysics agency (BMKG) said, triggering a tsunami warning for around two hours.
Map of earthquakes in Indonesia 1900– 2004. 1833. 2005. ... 2 159 656 buildings damaged [1] [2] ... List of natural disasters in Indonesia;
According to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB, or Badan Nasional Penanggulanan Bencana), as many as 566 people were killed by natural disasters and displaced over 2.6 million in Indonesia in 2014. Almost all of the disasters were classified as hydro-meteorological events.
Days of torrential rain have brought floods and landslides in Indonesia's province of West Sumatra, forcing the evacuation of more than 70,000 people, while killing at least 19, with seven going ...
Roads turned to murky brown rivers, homes were swept away by strong currents and bodies were pulled from mud during deadly flash floods and landslides after torrential rains hit West Sumatra in ...
Map sulfur dioxide (SO2) distribution by NASA's Aura satellite after eruption, 27 November 2017. At 23:37 on 26 November (UTC), another eruption occurred. Ngurah Rai International Airport was closed next day, [23] leaving many tourists stranded. [24] More than 100,000 people in a 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) radius of the volcano were ordered to ...