The 16th-century Portuguese shipwreck, Flor de la Mar, which sank off Sumatra with an estimated $2.6 billion in treasure, ...

The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5.

The swell of the ocean just off the coast of the West Sumatran ... which is made up of more than 17,000 islands, the second-largest of which is Sumatra. Rugged West Sumatra, where rainforest ...

Indonesia recorded a near-20% increase in the number of tourists last year, with almost 14 million visiting the vast ...

People tend to skip over Sumatra when they travel to Indonesia ... forming what we know today as Samosir Island. Measuring 1,145 square kilometers and 450 meters deep, the lake’s vastness ...

Sibolangit: Seven people have died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Indonesia's Sumatra island, officials said ... vehicles that had been cut off by landslides on the road since ...

JAKARTA (AFP): Rescuers have ended their search for a missing Indonesian crew member one week after a boat with seven on board hit bad weather off Sumatra island, officials said Monday.

As dawn broke over New Zealand on a seemingly ordinary morning, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake jolted both its North and South Islands, reminding residents of the natural forces at play beneath their feet ...