That’s partly because although hundreds of thousands live on the 6,865 square mile island in Indonesia’s North Maluku province, only 13,000 are considered to be living near the volcano.

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's North Maluku on Wednesday, the geophysics agency said. The agency on social media platform X said the quake, which was 81 km (50 miles) ...

A volcano in Indonesia has erupted at least a thousand times this month, officials said, as the latest eruption prompted fresh evacuation warnings. Mount Ibu, a remote volcano on Indonesia’s ...

Indonesia on Thursday raised the alert level of a volcano in the East Nusa Tenggara region to the highest level and asked six villages in the area to evacuate. Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Indonesia has 127 active volcanoes. Only the U.S. (168) and Russia (144) have more. Essential packing list: We landed ...

"The results of visual monitoring and seismic activity showed... a sudden increase in volcanic earthquakes," Indonesia geological agency head Muhammad Wafid said in a statement Thursday.

TERNATE, Indonesia: Hundreds of islanders have been evacuated, with thousands more awaiting their turn following increased volcanic eruptions in eastern Indonesia, officials said on Thursday (Jan 16).

Attention for those planning a trip to Bali. A nearby volcano, Mount Lewotobi, might disrupt your travel plans as Indonesia’s ...

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.