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Sangeang Api

Complex volcano · Indonesia · 1912m

Sangeang Api is a small volcanic island off the NE coast of Sumbawa Island. Two large cones, Doro Api in the center and Doro Mantai on the right, were constructed within and on the south rim of a largely obscured caldera. Intermittent eruptions have been recorded since 1512 and it has been frequently active in the 20th century.
Sangeang Api is a small volcanic island off the NE coast of Sumbawa Island. Two large cones, Doro Api in the center and Doro Mantai on the right, were constructed within and on the south rim of a largely obscured caldera. Intermittent eruptions have been recorded since 1512 and it has been frequently active in the 20th century. · Photo: Photo by Tom Casadevall, 1985 (U.S. Geological Survey). · Wikimedia Commons
Type
Complex volcano
Country
Indonesia
Region
Sunda & Banda / Sunda Volcanic Arc
Elevation
1912m
Coordinates
-8.200, 119.070
Last eruption
2022
Tectonic setting
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Landform
Composite
Major rock type
Trachybasalt / Tephrite Basanite
Geological summary

Sangeang Api volcano, one of the most active in the Lesser Sunda Islands, forms a small 13-km-wide island off the NE coast of Sumbawa Island. Two large trachybasaltic-to-tranchyandesitic volcanic cones, Doro Api and Doro Mantoi, were constructed in the center and on the eastern rim, respectively, of an older, largely obscured caldera. Flank vents occur on the south side of Doro Mantoi and near the northern coast. Intermittent eruptions have been recorded since 1512, most of them during in the 20th century.

Eruption history

Summary (VEI over time)
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1512~1563 · 1 eruptions · max VEI 31665~1716 · 1 eruptions · max VEI 21818~1869 · 2 eruptions · max VEI 21869~1920 · 2 eruptions · max VEI 21920~1971 · 10 eruptions · max VEI 31971~2022 · 6 eruptions · max VEI 315121614176718691971

Detailed timeline

  1. 2022VEI 2Observed
    2022-02-17 – 2022-02-17
  2. 2017VEI 2Observed
    2017-02-25 – 2020-06-10
    Summit crater, Doro Api cone
  3. 2014VEI 3Observed
    2014-05-30 – 2015-11-05
    Summit crater and east flank
  4. 2009VEI ?Geological estimate
    2009-05-01 – 2009-06-03
  5. 1997VEI 2Observed
    1997-07-02 – 1999-07-02
  6. 1985VEI 3Observed
    1985-07-30 – 1988-02-16
    Doro Api
  7. 1966VEI 2Observed
    1966-02-28 – 1966-11-16
  8. 1964VEI 2Observed
    1964-01-29 – 1965-12-01
    Doro Api
  9. 1958VEI 1Observed
    1958-07-02 – Ongoing
  10. 1957VEI 1Observed
    1957-07-02 – Ongoing
  11. 1956VEI 1Observed
    1956-12-16 – Ongoing
  12. 1955VEI 1Observed
    1955-07-02 – Ongoing
  13. 1954VEI 2Observed
    1954-04-26 – Ongoing
  14. 1954VEI 2Observed
    1954-11-04 – Ongoing
  15. 1953VEI 3Observed
    1953-03-19 – 1953-05-15
    Doro Api
  16. 1927VEI 2Observed
    1927-07-02 – Ongoing
  17. 1912VEI 2Observed
    1912-04-16 – Ongoing
  18. 1911VEI 2Observed
    1911-02-13 – 1911-03-02
    Doro Api
  19. 1860VEI 2Observed
    1860-09-11 – 1860-10-16
  20. 1821VEI 2Observed
    1821-03-23 – Ongoing
  21. 1715VEI 2Observed
    1715 – Ongoing
  22. 1512VEI 3Observed
    1512 – Ongoing

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