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Tondano Volcano

Updated: Mar 28, 2024 23:51 GMT -
caldera 1202 m / 3,944 ft
Sulawesi & Sangihe Islands (Indonesia), 1.23°N / 124.83°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Last update: 27 Feb 2020

Tondano is a large, ca. 20 x 30 km wide lake-filled caldera in north Sulawesi and famous for its idyllic landscape.

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Typical eruption style: Explosive
Tondano volcano eruptions: none in historic times

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Background

The caldera was formed perhaps as much as several million years ago. Younger cones are present in the caldera, as well as obsidian flows, and thermal areas. Lake Tondano lies adjacent the well-defined eastern caldera rim.
The active andesitic-to-basaltic stratovolcanoes Soputan, Sempu, Lokon-Empung and Mahawu have formed on the poorly defined southern and northern rims of the caldera.
The age of the latest eruptions within the caldera is not known, although thermal areas occur at Batu Kolok and Sarangson, and at the Tampusu cinder cone and Lahendong maar.
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Source: GVP

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Fri, 28 Sep 2012, 08:50

Tondano volcano (North Sulawesi): an erupting supervolcano - recommended article on VolcanoCafe

Tondano Lake is a large caldera lake in northern Sulawesi (Indonesia), best known as for its popular local recreation areas. Few know it is what is nowadays usually called a SUPERVOLCANO, similar to Yellowstone with a big difference: it is currently erupting. As Carl on VolcanoCafe in a brilliant article (s. below) points out, a single small earthquake at Yellowstone outperforms it in popularity. ... Read all

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