UP COMING TOUR

Up coming tour

Semeru Expedition

Click here for details

Space : Available

--------------------------------------- 

From Yogya To Ijen

Click here for details

Space : Available

-------------------------------------- 

Surabaya - Bromo - Ijen

Space : Available

Click here for details

------------------------------------

click here for Modification tour

 

We have 1 guest online
Convert 

into

  
free counters
Home WEST JAVA Mount Papandayan
MOUNT PAPANDAYAN
MOUNT PAPANDAYAN PDF Print E-mail
HISTORY - WEST JAVA

Papandayan is a complex stratovolcano with four large summit craters, the youngest of which was breached to the NE by collapse during a brief eruption in 1772 and contains active fumarole fields.  The broad 1.1-km-wide, flat-floored Alun-Alun crater truncates the summit of Papandayan, and Gunung Puntang to the north gives the volcano a twin-peaked appearance.  Several episodes of collapse have given the volcano an irregular profile and produced debris avalanches that have impacted lowland areas beyond the volcano.  A sulfur-encrusted fumarole field occupies historically active Kawah Mas ("Golden Crater"). 

After its first historical eruption in 1772, in which collapse of the NE flank produced a catastrophic debris avalanche that destroyed 40 villages and killed nearly 3000 persons, only small phreatic eruptions had occurred prior to an explosive eruption that began in November 2002

Papandayan volcano

Volcano type

stratovolcano

Location

Java, Indonesia, 7.32°S / 107.73°E

Summit elevation

2665 m (8,743 ft.)

Last eruptions

1772 (moderate eruption followed by a devastating debris avalanche), 1923, 1942, 2002

Typical eruption style

Explosive. At present strong fumarolic activity.

 

Source: GVP, Smithsonian Institution