Mount Mahawu

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Mount Mahawu
Elevation 1,324 metres (4,344 ft)[1]
Location Sulawesi, Indonesia
Coordinates 1.358° N 124.858° E
Type Stratovolcano
Last eruption 1977

Mount Mahawu is located immediately east from Lokon-Empung volcano in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The volcano is capped with 180 m wide and 140 m deep crater with two pyroclastic cones in the northern flanks. A small explosive eruption was recorded in 1789. In 1994, fumaroles, mudpots and small geysers actitivies were observed along the greenish shore of a crater lake.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Mahawu. Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved on 2006-12-31.