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Flights resume at Catania as Mount Etna activity eases
Operations have resumed at Catania-Fontanarossa Airport after Italian authorities lowered the volcanic aviation alert for Mount Etna, allowing flights to restart following disruption caused by the volcano's latest eruption. Airport…
Mount Etna eruption halts flights to Sicily’s Catania airport
ROME (Reuters) - Flights serving the eastern Sicilian city of Catania were halted on Sunday after an eruption from nearby Mount Etna…
Volcano in remote Russian Far East spews 10-km-high ash plume
April 12 (Reuters) - An active volcano on Russia's remote Kamchatka Peninsula kept erupting on Wednesday, a scientific institute reported, sending a…
UPDATE Indonesia evacuates villagers as volcano erupts on Java island
JAKARTA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A volcano erupted in Indonesia on Sunday spewing a cloud of ash 15 km into the sky…
Volcano erupts on western Japanese island of Kyushu, no reports of damage
TOKYO (Reuters) -A volcano on Japan's major western island of Kyushu erupted on Sunday evening, sending black smoke billowing high into the…
Volcano experts warn quake-hit Azores island could have eruption like La Palma
Volcano experts warned that the earthquake-hit island of Sao Jorge in Portugal's Azores archipelago could experience an initial eruption similar to Spain's…
Tsunami-hit Tonga islands suffered ‘catastrophic’ damage-reports
Tonga's small outlying islands have sustained major damage from a massive volcanic eruption and tsunami, the United Nations said on Tuesday, with…
Photo Story: Before and after the Tonga volcanic eruption
A handout composite satellite image made available by Copernicus, the European Union's Earth Observation Programme, shows imagery produced using data from the…
Australia, New Zealand step up efforts to aid tsunami-hit Tonga, Red Cross says scale of devastation could be immense
SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Australia and New Zealand dispatched surveillance flights on Monday to assess the damage in Tonga, isolated from…
Poor weather hampers search and rescue efforts at Indonesia volcano
SUMBERWULUH, Indonesia, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Heavy rain and wind temporarily halted rescue efforts on Monday after Indonesia's Semeru volcano erupted and…