A rescuer stands at a village hit by pyroclastic flows from eruption of Mount Merapi in Kinahrejo, Yogyakarta. The volcanic eruption and a tsunami killed scores of people hundreds of miles apart in Indonesia, spasms from the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” which spawns disasters from deep within the Earth.

First published in the October 27, 2010, 11:58 p.m. edition

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