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Tangkuban Perahu

Tangkuban Parahu

Stratovolcano · Indonesia · 2084m

The broad Tangkuban Parahu, known locally as the mountain of the "upturned boat," dominates the skyline immediately N of Indonesia's former capital city of Bandung. The volcano is truncated by the 6 x 8 km Pleistocene Sunda caldera. A series of nine overlapping craters form a 1 x 1.5 km wide elliptical depression at the summit of the post-caldera cone. Minor phreatic eruptions have occurred in historical time.
The broad Tangkuban Parahu, known locally as the mountain of the "upturned boat," dominates the skyline immediately N of Indonesia's former capital city of Bandung. The volcano is truncated by the 6 x 8 km Pleistocene Sunda caldera. A series of nine overlapping craters form a 1 x 1.5 km wide elliptical depression at the summit of the post-caldera cone. Minor phreatic eruptions have occurred in historical time. · Photo: Photo by Tom Casadevall, 1987 (U.S. Geological Survey). · Wikimedia Commons
Type
Stratovolcano
Country
Indonesia
Region
Sunda-Banda Volcanic Regions / Sunda Volcanic Arc
Elevation
2084m
Coordinates
-6.770, 107.600
Last eruption
2019
Tectonic setting
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Landform
Composite
Major rock type
Andesite / Basaltic Andesite
Geological summary

Gunung Tangkuban Parahu is a broad stratovolcano overlooking Indonesia's former capital city of Bandung. The volcano was constructed within the 6 x 8 km Pleistocene Sunda caldera, which formed about 190,000 years ago. The volcano's low profile is the subject of legends referring to the mountain of the "upturned boat." The Sunda caldera rim forms a prominent ridge on the western side; elsewhere the rim is largely buried by deposits of the current volcano. The dominantly small phreatic eruptions recorded since the 19th century have originated from several nested craters within an elliptical 1 x 1.5 km summit depression.

From Wikipedia

Tangkuban Perahu is a stratovolcano in Lembang, West Bandung Regency, West Java, Indonesia. It erupted in 1826, 1829, 1842, 1846, 1896, 1910, 1926, 1929, 1952, 1957, 1961, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1983, 2013 and 2019. It is a popular tourist attraction where tourists hike or ride to the edge of the crater to view the hot water springs and boiling mud up close, and buy eggs cooked on the hot surface. Together with Mount Burangrang and Bukit Tunggul, it is a remnant of the ancient Mount Sunda after the plinian eruption caused the Caldera to collapse.

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Eruption history

Summary (VEI over time)
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8020 BCE~7685 BCE · 1 eruptions · max VEI ?7685 BCE~7351 BCE · 1 eruptions · max VEI ?1684~2019 · 20 eruptions · max VEI 28020 BCE5678 BCE3000 BCE658 BCE1684

Detailed timeline

  1. 2019VEI 1Observed
    2019-07-26 – 2019-09-17
  2. 2013VEI 1Observed
    2013-02-21 – 2013-03-06
    Ratu Crater
  3. 2013VEI 1Observed
    2013-10-05 – 2013-10-05
    Ratu Crater
  4. 1985VEI 1Geological estimate
    1985-11-15 – 1985-11-15
    Kawah Baru
  5. 1983VEI 1Observed
    1983-09-14 – Ongoing
    Kawah Ratu
  6. 1969VEI 1Observed
    1969-07-20 – 1969-10-21
    Kawah Ecoma
  7. 1967VEI 1Observed
    1967-07-16 – 1967-07-16
    Kawah Ecoma
  8. 1965VEI 1Observed
    1965-02-16 – 1965-03-16
  9. 1965VEI 1Observed
    1965-10-16 – 1965-10-16
  10. 1961VEI 1Observed
    1961-07-16 – 1961-08-01
  11. 1957VEI 1Observed
    1957-01-16 – 1957-01-16
    Kawah Baru
  12. 1952VEI 1Observed
    1952-07-04 – 1952-07-11
    Kawah Ecoma
  13. 1929VEI 0Observed
    1929-05-20 – 1929-05-20
    Kawah Ecoma
  14. 1926VEI 1Observed
    1926-03-01 – 1926-07-09
    Kawah Ecoma
  15. 1910VEI 2Observed
    1910-04-07 – 1910-05
    Kawah Ratu B
  16. 1896VEI 2Observed
    1896-05-22 – 1896-05-23
    Kawah Baru
  17. 1846VEI 2Observed
    1846-05-27 – Ongoing
    Kawah Ratu B
  18. 1842VEI ?Observed
    1842 – Ongoing
  19. 1829VEI 2Observed
    1829-04-01 – 1829-04-04
    Kawah Ratu and Kawah Domas
  20. 1826VEI 2Observed
    1826-10-11 – 1826-10-11
  21. 7500 BCE (±50 yrs)VEI ?Geological estimate
    BCE 7500 – Ongoing
  22. 8020 BCE (±50 yrs)VEI ?Geological estimate
    BCE 8020 – Ongoing

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