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Mount Sinabung is a Pleistocene-to-Holocene stratovolcano. [11] It is located in a relatively cool area on a fertile plateau with mountains bounding the north. [12] The summit crater of the volcano has a complex, longer form due to vents migrating on the N-S line. [11]
The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora on Sumbawa and the 1257 eruption of Mount Samalas on Lombok were among the largest in the last two millennia, ranking 7 on the VEI scale. [14] The Sunda Arc subduction zone was also the site of one of the largest known eruptions of the Cenozoic , the VEI 8 Toba supereruption on Sumatra , which expelled 2,800 ...
Mount Sinabung [22] 2,460 8,070 21 East Nusa Tenggara: Mount Mutis [23] 2,427 7,963 22 ... Mount Parung [41] 687 2,254 37 South Papua: slope of Star Mountains [42] 310
Map showing the location of volcanoes and geological fault lines of Sumatra. The geography of Sumatra is dominated by a mountain range called Bukit Barisan (lit: "a row of hills"). The mountain range spans nearly 1,700 km (1,100 mi) from the north to the south of the island, and it was formed by movement of the Australian tectonic plate. [9]
In this long-exposure photo by Binsar Bakkara, hot lava flows from the crater of Mount Sinabung as seen from a location about 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) from the volcano, in Tiga Kicat, in Indonesia ...
Mount Kerinci and Mount Sinabung in Sumatra; Mount Rinjani in Lombok; Mount Ruang in North Sulawesi, located in the Sitaro Islands Regency; Mount Semeru and Mount ...
Berastepu, a village in Karo Regency, North Sumatra, was abandoned due to 2013 eruptions of Mount Sinabung. [26] Lubuk Laweh, a village in Padang Pariaman Regency, West Sumatra, was destroyed following the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes. [27]
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