Editorial photo #315631 Disaster and Accident
Landslide Threatens Villages of Mount Sinabung
Residents look at debris timber of cold lava eruption of Mount Sinabung has been eroding for landslide threatens villages Mardinding, Karo, Sumatra Island, Indonesia on October 31, 2014. Mardinding village, which is located less than three miles from Mount Sinabung which has erupted several times since September 2013 that forced more than 3,000 people from their homes and killed 16 people. The Indonesian government has asked people living within five kilometers (3.1 miles) from the volcano, on the northern tip of Sumatra Island, to evacuate their homes as the volcanology institute set volcanic alert level to the highest point on the scale three stages. (Photo by Ivan Damanik/NurPhoto)