The small island, inhabited mainly by Christians and Catholics, hit by torrential rains. A huge landslide swept away dozens of houses in one go. In 2004 and 2005 tsunami and earthquake nearly two ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 rattled Indonesia’s Nias island late on Saturday, sparking panic as residents fled their homes for higher ground fearing a possible tsunami, an official said on Sunday.

NIAS ISLAND, Indonesia, Mar 17 (UNHCR) - Reconstruction efforts on Nias Island received a boost this week when the first shipment of 2,000 cubic metres of timber arrived in the harbour of Gunung ...

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An earthquake of magnitude 6 struck in the Nias region in western Indonesia, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said on Tuesday. EMSC said the quake was at a depth of 10 km, after ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.7 off the west coast of Sumatra has killed hundreds on the Indonesian island of Nias, a popular destination with foreign and local surfers. The quake struck late on ...