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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] The Sunda Arc is formed via the subduction of the Indo-Australian ...
Mount Tambora, also known as Tomboro, [6] is situated in the northern part of Sumbawa island, part of the Lesser Sunda Islands. [7] It is a segment of the Sunda Arc, a chain of volcanic islands that make up the southern chain of the Indonesian archipelago. [8] Tambora forms its own peninsula on Sumbawa, known as the Sanggar peninsula.
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.
The Sunda Strait. Indonesia has over 130 active volcanoes, [12] the most of any nation. They make up the axis of the Indonesian island arc system produced by northeastward subduction of the Indo-Australian Plate. A majority of these volcanoes lie along Indonesia's two largest islands, Java and Sumatra.
Volcanic arc/ belt or Subregion or Hotspot VEI Date Known/proposed consequences Mount Pinatubo: Luzon Volcanic Arc: 6: 15 Jun 1991: Global temperature fell by 0.4 °C Novarupta: Aleutian Range: 6: 6 Jun 1912: Santa María: Central America Volcanic Arc: 6: 24 Oct 1902: Krakatoa: Sunda Arc: 6: 26-28 Aug 1883: At least 30,000 dead: Mount Tambora ...
The most severe eruptions on Earth in historical times took place in Indonesia. In 1815, the giant eruption of Mount Tambora, a stratovolcano, became the largest known eruption in the world during historical times, and it had such a large effect on the climate that the following year, 1816, in Europe was known as the year without summer. 40 km 3 of ash were produced as a result of the eruption ...
A volcano on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos has begun erupting, lighting up the nighttime sky as lava tumbled down its sides toward the sea. The La Cumbre volcano on Fernandina island ...
The islands of Lombok and Sumbawa lie in the central portion of the Sunda Arc. The Sunda Arc is home to some of the world's most dangerous and explosive volcanoes. The eruption of nearby Mount Tambora on Sumbawa is known for the most violent eruption in recorded history on 15 April 1815, with a scale 7 on the VEI. [8]