Mount Empung

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Mount Empung
Gunung Empung
COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Aanleg van een steiger aan de Baai van Menado met op de achtergrond de vulkanen Lokon en Empung TMnr 60027989.jpg
Mount Empung and Mount Lokon seen from Manado Bay.
Highest point
Elevation1,340 m (4,400 ft)
ListingVolcanoes in Indonesia
Coordinates1°21′30″N 124°47′30″E / 1.35833°N 124.79167°E / 1.35833; 124.79167Coordinates: 1°21′30″N 124°47′30″E / 1.35833°N 124.79167°E / 1.35833; 124.79167[1]
Geography
Mount Empung is located in Sulawesi
Mount Empung
Mount Empung
Location on Sulawesi island
LocationSulawesi, Indonesia
Geology
Mountain typeStratovolcano
Last eruptionMay 2015 (ongoing)[1]

Mount Empung, together with Mount Lokon, is a twin volcano (2.2 km apart) in the North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Both rise above the Tondano plain and are among active volcanoes of Sulawesi. Mount Empung has a 400 m wide and 150 m deep crater at the summit that erupted in the eighteenth century.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Lokon-Empung". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2006-12-31.


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