Swollen rivers have flooded huge parts of the country and rain is causing the waters to rise, endangering people on rooftops and clinging to treetops.

Indonesia’s disaster agency raised the official death toll from 58 on Sunday, with more than three dozen people still missing.

Officials expect the death toll to grow as rescue teams reach more affected areas.

Two residential buildings and a public bathhouse collapsed under weight of falling earth in Xiangning county, Shanxi province on Friday night.

People across the country bowed their heads in prayer at 2.46pm, the moment that the deadly magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck.

US president signed the books during a tour of the disaster zone. Some locals described his visit as ‘a godsend’.

Images from the city of Townsville showed cars mostly submerged and picket fences barely poking through waist-deep floodwaters

Legend has it that when oarfish rise to shallow waters, disaster is near. But scientists say there has been no reports of increased seismic activity in recent weeks

At least 37 people have been killed, but number expected to increase as rescue and recovery teams get to hardest hit areas.

Rocks crashed through Alhambra hotel during a wedding on Sunday.

Activists point finger at a lack of regulation as latest incident forces the evacuation of parts of the city of Brumadinho.

Plan to relocate Rohingya refugees to an isolated island prone to extreme weather raises concerns that a ‘new crisis’ could be created.

Residents fled from their homes as quake struck early on Monday.

In Victoria, dozens of firefighters narrowly escaped after a fire changed direction unpredictably due to high winds

Meterologists say Pabuk, the first tropical storm in decades to strike during the peak holiday season, made landfall in southern Thailand on Friday afternoon

Chinese researchers find coast of what is today’s Guangdong province was struck by catastrophic event in AD1076 and call on government to consider the threat in future planning.

Indonesia’s tourism numbers plunged in the second half of 2018 after the Lombok quakes, a quake-tsunami disaster on Sulawesi island and a Lion Air plane crash in October

Search and rescue teams have found 15 dead and are scouring the area for at least 20 missing people according to the national disaster agency

The volcano now stands 110 metres high, down from 338 metres in recent months, having lost 150-170 million cubic metres of volume

More than 4,600 people have died or disappeared in a slew of catastrophic events to hit the Southeast Asian archipelago this year

Rendang – a traditional dish from the Southeast Asian archipelago – has been called upon by relief agencies and pilgrims alike in the past for its long shelf life

No-go zone widened around Anak Krakatoa to 5km and shell-shocked residents told to stay away after 430 were killed by Saturday’s tsunami

Nearly 22,000 people have been evacuated, but torrential rains are hampering relief efforts.

With more than 400 people dead in yet another natural disaster to hit Indonesia, there is an obvious need to fund research and put in place a more advanced network against the killer waves.

Banten province was hit by the deadly waves on Saturday night, leaving hundreds dead and many still missing

Heavy rains that are expected to last until Wednesday afternoon could trigger landslides, sending the flanks of Anak Krakatoa crashing into the sea.

At least 429 people were killed by deadly wave in Sumatra and Java and about 1,400 injured.