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Lokon volcano
Lokon volcano
Latest news from Lokon volcano
Lokon-Empung volcano (North Sulawesi & Sangihe Islands, Indonesia) activity update: occasional ash eruptions
Thursday, May 03, 2012
Lokon volcano produced ash plumes rising to 3.7 km (12,000 ft) altitude and drifting 75 km N, observed from ground and satellite. [more]
Lokon volcano (North Sulawesi): powerful ash eruption on 1 May
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Lokon volcano erupted again at 11:55 a.m. local time on Tuesday 1 May.
The eruption was preceded by a number of mild earthquakes over a span of ... [more]

Lokon-Empung volcano

stratovolcano 1580 m / 5,184 ft
North Sulawesi & Sangihe Islands, Indonesia, 1.36°N / 124.79°E
Current status: erupting (4 out of 5)
Lokon-Empung webcams / live data
last update: 3 May 2012 (occasional ash eruptions)
Typical eruption style:

Small-moderate explosive eruptions.


Lokon-Empung volcano eruptions: 1375, 1775, 1829, 1893-94, 1930, 1942, 1948, 1951-53, 1958-59, 1961, 1962, 1963-64, 1965, 1966, 1969-70, 1971, 1973-74, 1975-80, 1984(?), 1986-87, 1988, 1991-92, 2000-01, 2002, 2002-03, 2011
The twin volcanoes Lokon and Empung, rising about 800 m above the plain of Tondano, are among the most active volcanoes of Sulawesi.
Lokon, the higher of the two peaks (whose summits are only 2.2 km apart), has a flat, craterless top. The younger Empung volcano has a 400-m-wide, 150-m-deep crater that erupted last in the 18th century, but all subsequent eruptions have originated from Tompaluan, a 150 x 250 m wide double crater situated in the saddle between the two peaks.
Historical eruptions have primarily produced small-to-moderate ash plumes that have occasionally damaged croplands and houses, but lava-dome growth and pyroclastic flows have also occurred.