The thickly furred dog, panting in the tropical heat of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, was confused. The retriever had picked up the scent of a human in the wreckage of a local college in the city of ...

It has been two days since an earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Sept. 30, killing upwards of 1,100, according to the last U.N. estimate. But small signs of life are returning to ...

Some scientists in West Sumatra have stated that the Mentawai Fault has the potential for sudden energy release or is ready ...

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) stated that earthquakes in West Sumatra Province experience a 50-100-year ...

PADANG, Indonesia — A powerful earthquake crumpled houses across a large swath of western Indonesia yesterday, killing at least 70 people and injuring hundreds, authorities said, predicting that the ...

On November 8th, 2009 the Trinity College Seismograph Station (TCCT) recorded an earthquake of magnitude Mw = 6.7 with body wave amplitudes that were larger than expected. This earthquake, located in ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- An earthquake shook western Indonesia for the second straight day Thursday and triggered a tsunami alert. The latest tremor was also felt in neighboring Singapore, causing ...