Mount Empung Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. 266100. Lokon-Empung. 2006-12-31.