Danger level raised for Indonesia’s deadly tsunami volcano

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 21:32:34 +0000

NATURE’S WRATHAn aerial shot taken on Dec. 23 shows Anak Krakatau as it erupts in Java, Indonesia, triggering a landslide on the volcano and a deadly tsunami. AP

Indonesia on Thursday raised the danger alert level for an erupting volcano that sparked a killer tsunami at the weekend, after previously warning that fresh activity at the crater threatened to trigger another deadly wave.

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Tsunami remembrance ceremony held on Thailand’s Patong Beach

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 05:07:51 +0000

Tsunami remembrance ceremony held on Thailand’s Patong Beach

Residents, tourists and provincial dignitaries gathered on Wednesday morning at Patong Beach for a remembrance ceremony commemorating 14 years since the deadly tsunami that struck on the morning of December 26, 2004.

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Tsunami survivors face another whammy as floodwater swamps homes

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 04:41:47 +0000

Tsunami survivors face another whammy as floodwater swamps homes

JAKARTA — Just four days after the Sunda Strait tsunami devastated homes in Serang, Banten, floodwater engulfed two villages in the regency on Wednesday, inundating about 200 homes and displacing 1,818 people.

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WATCH: Search team rescues turtles stranded by Sunda Strait tsunami

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 03:49:42 +0000

The spokesman for Indonesia’s National Disaster and Mitigation Agency, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, posted a video on Twitter showing turtles …

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Tsunami survivors recall higher waves, louder rumbles, brighter lava from Anak Krakatau

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 10:33:50 +0000

Tsunami survivors recall higher waves, louder rumbles, brighter lava from Anak Krakatau

For residents living on the west coast of Java Island, the eruptions that came from Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait prior to a tsunami that struck the area on Saturday were nothing out of the ordinary.

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Indonesia asks people to avoid coast near erupting volcano

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 01:55:49 +0000

An Indonesian soldier inspects the damage at a tsunami-ravaged village in Sumur, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018. The Christmas holiday was somber with prayers for tsunami victims in the Indonesian region hit by waves that struck without warning Saturday night. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Indonesian authorities are asking people near an island volcano to avoid the coast while eruptions and weather and sea conditions are monitored for tsunami risks.

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