Mount Lokon

Mount Lokon
Elevation	1,580 m (5,184 ft) [1]
Listing	Ribu
Location
Mount Lokon Location on Sulawesi island
Location	Sulawesi,  Indonesia
Coordinates	1°21′30″N 124°47′30″E / 1.35833°N 124.79167°E / 1.35833; 124.79167Coordinates: 1°21′30″N 124°47′30″E / 1.35833°N 124.79167°E / 1.35833; 124.79167[1]
Geology
Type	Stratovolcano
Last eruption	15 July, 2011

Mount Lokon, together with Mount Empung, is a twin volcano (2.2 km/1.4 mi apart) in the northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, roughly 10 km (6 mi) south of Manado. Both rise above the Tondano plain and are among active volcanoes of Sulawesi. Mount Lokon has a flat and craterless top.^[1]

Lokon formed during a period of andesitic volcanism on ring fractures resulting from the Tondano caldera's early to mid-Pleistocene collapse. Recently-erupted material remains andesitic in composition ^[2] and consists of ash plumes and, less commonly, pyroclastic flows and lava domes. ^[1]

The volcano erupted on 15 July 2011, forcing thousands of people to evacuate.^[3]

Indonesia has 129 volcanoes including Mount Lokon. The last major eruption of Mount Lokon before in 1991, killed a Swiss hiker and forced thousands of people to flee their homes.^[4]

Mount Lokon erupting in 2011

See also

Indonesia portal

• List of volcanoes in Indonesia

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Lokon-Empung". Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0606-10=. Retrieved 2006-12-31. 
2. ^ "Lahendong". Lahendong. http://202.51.233.205/pbumi/sulawesi/hendongtxt.html. Retrieved 15 July 2011. 
3. ^ "Indonesians flee volcano eruption on Sulawesi". BBC News. 14 July 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14164522. Retrieved 2011-07-16. 
4. ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/17/indonesian-volcano-biggest-eruption-yet

External links

• Flowers of Tomohon
• BBC report on eruption, 15 July 2011