Seventeen people were killed in a fire that raced through a packed karaoke bar early Sunday on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, and 71 others were hospitalized for smoke inhalation, according to AP.
Witnesses told authorities the fire started at around (...)
The 12th Asian Information Summit, organized by the Asia and the Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development of Indonesia, was held in the Indonesian city of Manado.
Dr. Riyadh Najm, President of the General Commission for Audiovisual (...)
Mt Lokon in North Sulawesi erupted 14 times on Saturday morning.
"We categorized them as small eruptions and were not dangerous," ANTARA quoted head of Mt Lokon and Mahawu monitoring post in Kakaskasen, Tomohon, Farid Ruskanda Bina, as saying on (...)
After being not active from eruptions on Monday (September 12), Mt. Lokon in North Sulawesi erupted again on Tuesday, at 6.06 am and 9.18 am local time, a local official said.
He said seismic data between 00.00 - 06.00 am local time showed several (...)
The Lokon and Mahawu volcanic monitoring post in Kakaskasen, Tomohon, was still recording volcanic shocks of quite high amplitudes up to 45 millimeters from the Tompaluan crater, Mt Lokon, North Sulawesi.
"The amplitudes are still big," head of the (...)
Two earthquakes jolt Melonguane, Talaud District, North Sulawesi Province, on Wednesday morning.
The first earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale shook 44 km southeast of Melonguane, at 7.41 am local time. The temblor's epicenter was 3.60 (...)
Rising sea levels, warming waters and spiraling acidity caused by global warming are
threatening the world's oceans and the communities they
support, governments warned Thursday, as they sought to
include protection for the seas in a new U.N. (...)
The Indonesian government has taken measures in anticipating the spread of swine flu in Manado, North Sulawesi, during the World Ocean Conference (WOC), ANTARA reported.
During his visit here on Saturday, Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare (...)
A tsunami simulation to be conducted on December 26, 2008 in Manado will need the participation of at least 15,000 volunteers, ANTARA quoted the head of the event's organizing committee HR Makagansa as saying.
The simulation would be witnessed by (...)
Local authorities have evacuated some 70 people to a school building after a landslide hit the hilly village of Kombos Timur in the North Sulawesi provincial capital of Manado, ANTARA reported.
"The move is aimed at preventing local people from (...)
Landslides and floods which have hit South Bolmong and Bolmong Districts, North Sulawesi Province, since July 17, 2008, inflicted around Rp70 billion in material losses, ANTARA reported.
The natural disasters have damaged public infrastructures (...)
A tectonic earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale rocked North Sulawesi province at 9.15 local time on Tuesday morning, ANTARA quoted local Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) spokesman Mujianto as saying.
He said the epicenter of the (...)
An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale shook Bitung water area, North Sulawesi province on Saturday at 07:38 am local time, ANTARA reported.
The quake's epicenter was located at 1.63 degrees northern latitude and 127.00 degrees eastern (...)
Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) will soon install around 13 earthquake and tsunami detectors in the eastern Indonesian provinces of North Sulawesi, Gorontalo and North Maluku, ANTARA quoted Manado BMG spokesman Subardjo as saying (...)
The Indonesian Navy has sent three warships respectively KRI Wiratno, KRI Karapu and KRI KAL, and one Nomad plane, to look for MV Rajawali fishing boat believed to have sunk in Belang waters last September 28, 2007, and its 12 crew members, ANTARA (...)
Mt. Soputan which is located between Minahasa and Minahasa Tenggara districts continued to spew ash on Tuesday, ANTARA quoted an official as saying.
"The mountain still showed activity until 9.30 a.m. on Tuesday and spewed hot lava afterwards," (...)
Thousands of Indonesian people staged a
peaceful rally in the North Sulawesi provincial capital of Manado today to observe the Earth Day which falls on April 22.
According to Indonesian news agency ANTARA, the demonstrators who claimed to be (...)
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake in northeastern Indonesia left one person dead and four injured when it rattled buildings, causing panicked residents to flee homes, and shopping malls,
officials and witnesses said Monday.
The woman who died suffered a (...)
THOUSANDS OF VILLAGERS WERE
EVACUATED AFTER A VOLCANO ON AN ISLAND IN EASTERN INDONESIA
STARTED SPEWING LAVA AND HOT CLOUDS, AP QUOTED INDONESIAN OFFICIALS AS SAYING FRIDAY.
THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF CASUALTIES.
THE STATUS OF THE 1,784-METER (...)
