Awu (volcano)
| Awu | ||
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 Mount Awu summit crater |
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| height | 1320 m | |
| location | Sangihe Besar Island , Indonesia | |
| Coordinates | 3 ° 41 '21 " N , 125 ° 26' 48" E | |
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| Type | Stratovolcano | |
| Last eruption | 2004 | |
The Gunung Awu volcanic massif dominates the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sangihe Besar in the Sangihe archipelago . The flanks of the volcano are cut by deep valleys. The cone lies in a caldera with a diameter of 4.5 kilometers. The eruptions in 1711, 1812, 1856, 1892 and 1966 claimed a total of over 8,000 deaths, mainly due to pyroclastic currents and lahars that had developed in the course of the eruptions. In the summit area of the volcano there was a crater lake with a diameter of one kilometer and a depth of 172 meters in 1922, which was destroyed in the 1966 eruption.
Further eruptions occurred in August 1875, August 1883, August 1885, 1893, March 14, 1913, 1921, 1922, from December 1930 to December 1931 (output of 3 million cubic meters of lava ), in April 1992 and June 2004 .
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- Awu (Vulkan) in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)