According to international media coverage, the main problem with Gunung Agung’s eruption is that the airport is closed and tourists cannot get in or out. The people of East Bali are largely invisible ...

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A group of Indonesian priests have trekked to the very top of Bali’s Mount Agung volcano as increasingly frequent tremors and earthquakes from the “pulsating” beast stoke fears an eruption could be ...

Despite Bali’s Mount Agung volcano spewing huge plumes of volcanic ash, and lava, experts warn complacency is the island’s biggest enemy and that the worst is yet to come, including blinding ashfall ...

Bali’s Mount Agung is belching clouds of ash – and its first major eruption since 1963 could be imminent. Indonesia’s Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said, “Plumes of smoke are occasionally ...

Mount Agung had been dormant for 120 years prior to its eruption in 1963 - it was Indonesia’s largest and most devastating eruption in the twentieth century and is estimated to have killed between ...

More than 130,000 people have been evacuated from an area on the Indonesian island of Bali as an eruption of a volcano there seems imminent. Scientists say tremors and smoke from the volcano -- Gunung ...