Mount Empung | |
Other Name: | Gunung Empung |
Elevation M: | 1340 |
Listing: | Volcanoes in Indonesia |
Location: | Sulawesi, Indonesia |
Map: | Indonesia Sulawesi |
Map Size: | 275 |
Label Position: | left |
Coordinates: | 1.3583°N 124.7917°W |
Coordinates Ref: | [1] |
Type: | Stratovolcano |
Last Eruption: | May 2015 (ongoing) |
Mount Empung, together with Mount Lokon, is a twin volcano (2.2 km apart) in the North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Both volcanoes rise above the Tondano plain and are among active volcanoes of Sulawesi. Mount Empung has a 400 m wide and 150 m deep crater at the summit that erupted in the eighteenth century.[1]