Mount Empung
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| Mount Empung | |
|---|---|
| Gunung Empung | |
 Mount Empung and Mount Lokon seen from Manado Bay. | |
| Elevation | 1,340 m (4,396 ft) |
| Listing | Volcanoes in Indonesia |
| Location | |
  Mount Empung | |
| Location | Sulawesi, Indonesia |
| Coordinates | 1°21′30″N 124°47′30″E / 1.35833°N 124.79167°ECoordinates: 1°21′30″N 124°47′30″E / 1.35833°N 124.79167°E[1] |
| Geology | |
| Type | Stratovolcano |
| Last eruption | 2012 |
Mount Empung, together with Mount Lokon, is a twin volcano (2.2 km apart) in the North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Both rise above the Tondano plain and are among active volcanoes of Sulawesi. Mount Empung has a 400 m wide and 150 m deep crater at the summit that erupted in the eighteenth century.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Lokon-Empung". Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0606-10%3D. Retrieved 2006-12-31.
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