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Cabinet meeting at Mt. Everest:Nepal

Meeting in deep of the sea, in Philippines and now another meeting at highest place of the world. Reason, they want to raise the issue. Today, Nepal cabinet minsters are going to meet at highest peek of the word,...

Volcano erupts near Tokyo

A Volcano near Japan's capital Tokyo has erupted on Monday morning and white smoke is billowing and volcanic ash, carried by winds, are falling on the Tokyo. "Mt Asama, straddling Gunma and Nagano prefectures,...

Mt. Shasta celebrates the Fourth on the streets and in the skies

"By Steve Gerace Mount Shasta Area Newspapers Sun Jul 06, 2008, 12:44 PM PDT Story Tools: Email This |  Print This Mount Shasta, Calif. - Smokey skies cleared the morning of July 4, 2008, as if...

Jayapura`s Mt. Cycloops areas rich in nickel deposit

Jayapura (ANTARA News) - The Cycloops mountain range which stretches from Jayapura city to a number of districts in Papua, sits on a huge nickel deposit believed to be the biggest in the world, a local official said. "But the mining resource could not be exploited because the...

Cobra MT800 Walkie Talkie Pack

"Some bright spark wanting the freedom to go off and ski the red runs, leaving his less able companions on the nursery slopes, wanted a way to communicate where to meet up later for apres ski beers. So he made these walkie talkies and gave them to all his pals, no line...

Seismometer at Mt Anak Krakatau resumes functioning

"The seismometer of the Mt Anak Krakatau (GAK) in the Sunda Strait, Lampung province, has resumed functioning on Sunday at 2.02 p.m West Indonesia Time, because of clear weather after heavy rains for several days in the area.Head of the Mt Anak Krakatau monitoring team in...

Activity of Mt Anak Krakatau increasing

Serang (ANTARA News) - The activity of Mt Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait in the last 18 days has been increasing causing frequent volcanic tremors. Anak Krakatau also spewed molten lava and hot rocks reaching 700 meters high. According to the Anak Krakatau...

Mt Semeru showing signs of declining activity

Lumajang, East Java (ANTARA News) - Mount Semeru in East Java province showed signs of declining activity in the past week, spewing ashes 15 to 17 times once every four hours. The declining activity however caused...

Scientists baffled by Indonesian Mt. Kelud volcano

"A volcano in Indonesia that was mistakenly thought to have erupted is baffling scientists, who said Monday that energy surging inside it had surpassed that of its last eruption in 1990. Scientists abandoned their...

Indonesia`s Mt. Kelud critical, may erupt - scientist

""Kelud is in a critical phase. It could erupt now," Surono, head of Indonesia's centre for Vulcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation, told Reuters by telephone from the capital Jakarta. On Thursday, another official said there had been more than 600 hundred tremors...

WWF declares Mt. Lumut forest as special conservation area

"The protected forest in Mt. Lumut which covered 25,802 ha-land was considered a sacred place by native Dayak Hindu Kaharingan community. Thus, the WWF-Indonesia regarded that it should be turned into a...

Local administration developing forest tourism in Mt Bromo region

""The research forest on Mt Bromo has become a popular tourist destination as people can see endangered plants," local information and communication official Iskandar said in Karanganyar on Tuesday. Besides...

Mt Krakatau in Sunda Strait placed in "on-guard" status

"The volcano had produced 20 tremors and released 80-meter to 200-meter-long white-grey smoke plumes every hour over the past three days (Oct 24-26), Sigin, an officer assigned to keep a watch, said on Friday. In...

Villages covered by Mt Soputan`s ashes

"The 1,783-meter volcano sent up ashes 1,000 to 1,500 meters into the sky at 09.15 a.m. on Thursday. "A number of villages in Southeast Minahasa district on which ashes had fallen have been put in a state of red...

Mt Soputan spews ashes

Manado, N Sulawesi (ANTARA News) - Mount Soputan in Indonesia`s northern-most province of North Sulawesi sent up ashes 1,500 meters into the sky at 09.15 a.m. on Thursday. Columns of brownish ashes and white clouds moved in westerly direction, an officer at the volcano`s...

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