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Bukit Tiga volcano

Stratovolcano 1629 m / 5344 ft
Sumatra, Indonesia, -3.31°S / 102.26°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5) | Reports
Bukit Tiga volcano books
Typical eruption style: unspecified
Bukit Tiga volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
TimeMag. / DepthDistanceLocation
Sun, 8 Mar 2020
Sun, 8 Mar 04:03 UTCM 3.5 / 81 km13 kmSouthern Sumatra, Indonesia

Background:

Located in south-central Sumatra SSE of the Semalako Plain, Bukit Tiga has a 1.3-km-diameter crater open to the SW. It was mapped by Budiardjo et al. (2001) as the Pleistocene 0.984 Ma Tiga Andesite. The Hululais volcano and geothermal are lies immediately to the N.
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