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The volcano formed the northern ridge of the Bandung Basin. The ancient volcano is the predecessor of today's Tangkuban Perahu, Burangrang, and Bukit Tunggul volcanoes. The Sunda volcano was a stratovolcano and is estimated to have reached up to 3,000–4,000 metres (9,850–13,100 ft) above sea level during the Pleistocene age. [1]
The Sunda Arc is a volcanic arc that produced the volcanoes that form the topographic spine of the islands of Sumatra, Nusa Tenggara, Java, the Sunda Strait, and the Lesser Sunda Islands. The Sunda Arc begins at Sumatra and ends at Flores , and is adjacent to the Banda Arc . [ 1 ]
Volcano/complex Volcanic arc/belt, subregion, or hotspot Material volume bulk (km 3) Date (earliest est.) Date (latest est.) Tephra or eruption name 5 Sakurajima: Kyūshū: 1 c.1471 c.1476 5 Mount Pinatubo: Luzon Volcanic Arc 1 c.1400 c.1500 Buag eruptive period 5 El Chichón Chiapanecan Volcanic Arc 2.8 c.1260 c.1460 5 Ubinas
Volcano/complex Volcanic arc/belt, subregion, or hotspot Material volume (km 3) Age in Ka [8] Tephra or eruption name 6 Kuttara Hokkaidō: 10.2 DRE 50 Kt-2 7 Ōkataina Volcanic Complex: Taupō Volcanic Zone >100 DRE [9] 50 Rotoiti Ignimbrite 6 Phlegraean Fields Campanian volcanic arc 13.1 51 Santa Lucia Tephra 7 Lake Maninjau: Sunda Arc, Sumatra
The 150 entries in the list below are grouped into six geographical regions, four of which belong to the volcanoes of the Sunda Arc trench system. The remaining two groups are volcanoes of Halmahera , including its surrounding volcanic islands , and volcanoes of Sulawesi and the Sangihe Islands .
A thundering sound was heard from the mountain Batuwara [now called Pulosari, an extinct volcano in Bantam, the nearest to the Sunda Strait] which was answered by a similar noise from Kapi, lying westward of the modern Bantam [ is the westernmost province in Java, so this seems to indicate that Krakatoa is meant]. A great glowing fire, which ...
Volcano VEI Location Year Eruption Source(s) 71,000 to 250,100+ Mount Tambora: 7 Indonesia: 1815 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, Year Without a Summer: 36,000+ Krakatoa: 6 Indonesia: 1883 1883 eruption of Krakatoa: 30,000 Mount Pelée: 4 Martinique: 1902 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée: 23,000 Nevado del Ruiz: 3 Colombia: 1985 Armero tragedy ...
Mount Galunggung is part of the Sunda Arc extending through Sumatra, Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands, which has resulted from the subduction of the Australian Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. For the first time since 1982 after eruptions finished and conditions seemed normal, on February 12, 2012, the status was upgraded to Alert based on ...