Talang Volcano (also known as Salasi or Sulasih) is located in Sumatra.
There are two crater lakes on the 2,896 m high volcano, the largest being Danau Talang.
In April 2005 an eruption of Talang sent ash 1000 metres high. Over 40,000 people were evacuated from the volcano.
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A football-sized block of ice fell out of the sky on to the roof of an industrial building in Madrid, police say, denting the roof but without causing injuries. "We don't know where it came from," a police spokeswoman said of the 20 kilogram lump. [url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/n...
A Delta II Stage 3 Rocket Body that was launched on the 20th March, 2004, from Cape Canaveral for the USA 177 mission, was predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 19th March 2007 @ 23:16 UTC ± 3 hours. Predicted Decay Location 21.0° N, 135.8° E [url=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/42...
A specially configured Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile is scheduled to launch from North Vandenberg’s Launch Facility-6 Tuesday to test the Missile Defence Agency’s sensors. Col. Teresa Djuric, 30th Space Wing vice commander, is the spacelift commander for this launch. Repr...
From Tuesday 3 April to Sunday 26 August, visitors to the 'City of Light' will have one more attraction to pack into their busy schedules. A stop at the Palais de la Découverte will allow them to take a closer look at our planet, as ESA and this renowned Parisian museum have teamed up to exhibit a...
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An Unidentified Flying Object crashed in Barez Mounts in the central province of Kerman Wednesday morning.
Deputy Governor General of Kerman province Abulghassem Nasrollahi told FNA that the crash which was followed by an explosion and a thick spiral of smoke has caused no casualties or damage...
Kikai is a mostly submerged, 19-km-wide caldera near the northern end of the Ryukyu Islands south of Kyushu. Kikai was the source of one of the world's largest Holocene eruptions about 6300 years ago. Read more [url=http://farm1...
Two volcanoes in the Tibesti Range Mountains in northern Chad exhibit dramatically different surface characteristics in a topographic image. The difference in their appearance is due to their relative ages and eruptive history. The composite image was captured by NASA's Terra satellite o...
Tree over ancient stone circle chopped down A 200-year-old tree at the centre of worship by druids and witches has been chopped down to size after it became diseased. The 80ft beech at Winterbourne Abbas (England) has been reduced to a 10-metre stump by English Heritage because of fears it would die a...
The Purple Mountain Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced it has named two asteroids after Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng, two astronauts from China's second manned space mission in 2005. According to Yang Jiexing, secretary of the asteroids naming committee in the obs...
Oldest GPS satellite being prepared for disposal SVN-15, the oldest operational satellite in the GPS constellation has broadcast its signal for more than 16 years, during which time that signal's mission applications -- and the people who make sure the signal is available -- have changed dra...
The bright flash of light seen streaking across Toronto's sky last night was likely a meteoroid or piece of space debris, a University of Toronto professor says. Police switchboards in Toronto, York and Durham regions received several calls from people who had seen a fireball in the sky betwee...
