Mount Awu

Summit crater of Mount Awu

The volcanic massif of Gunung Awu 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 is in a caldera with a diameter of 4.5 kilometers. The outbreaks in 1711, 1812, 1856, 1892 and 1966 claimed a total of more than 8000 deaths, in particular by pyroclastic flows and lahars, which had developed in the course of the eruption. In the summit area of the volcano in 1922 was a crater with a diameter of one kilometer and a depth of 172 meters, which was destroyed by the eruption in 1966.

Further outbreaks occurred in August 1875 in August 1883 in August 1885, 1893, March 14, 1913 1921 1922, December 1930-December 1931 ( output of 3 million cubic meters of lava), in April 1992, and in June 2004.

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  • Awu ( volcano) in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)
  • Mountain in Asia
  • Mountain in Indonesia
  • Eintausender
  • Stratovolcano
  • Caldera
  • Sulawesi Utara
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