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Mountain Sumbing

Sumbing

Stratovolcano · Indonesia · 3370m

Sumbing rises above rice fields immediately to the SE of Sundoro volcano. An 800-m-wide crater at the summit is breached to the NE, and flank cones are located on the N and SW sides. A phreatic explosion from the summit crater was reported in 1730.
Sumbing rises above rice fields immediately to the SE of Sundoro volcano. An 800-m-wide crater at the summit is breached to the NE, and flank cones are located on the N and SW sides. A phreatic explosion from the summit crater was reported in 1730. · Photo: Photo by Lee Siebert, 1995 (Smithsonian Institution). · Wikimedia Commons
Type
Stratovolcano
Country
Indonesia
Region
Sunda-Banda Volcanic Regions / Sunda Volcanic Arc
Elevation
3370m
Coordinates
-7.382, 110.075
Last eruption
1730
Tectonic setting
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Landform
Composite
Major rock type
Andesite / Basaltic Andesite
Geological summary

Gunung Sumbing is a stratovolcano that is the SE-most edifice of a chain of volcanoes in central Java that includes Sundoro and the Dieng Complex. Prominent cones are located on the N and SE flanks. An 800-m-wide summit crater is breached to the NE, but is partially filled by a lava dome that extended beyond the original crater rim. Emplacement of the dome followed the production of extensive pyroclastic flows down the NE flank. Activity reported in about 1730 CE may have produced the small phreatic craters found at the summit behind the dome.

From Wikipedia

Mount Sumbing is an active stratovolcano in Central Java, Indonesia. This volcano is symmetrical like its neighbor Mount Sindoro which lies to its northwest. Administratively, The volcano is divided between 3 regencies: Temanggung, Wonosobo, and Magelang. The only report of historical eruptions is from 1730. It has created a small phreatic crater at the summit.

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Eruption history

Summary (VEI over time)
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1730~1730 · 1 eruptions · max VEI 117301730173117311731

Detailed timeline

  1. 1730VEI 1Observed
    1730 – Ongoing

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