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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Mount Sinabung

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Sinabung.jpg/280px-Sinabung.jpgMount Sinabung (Indonesian: Gunung Sinabung) is a Pleistocene to Holocene stratovolcano of andesite and dacite in the Karo plateau of Karo Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia, 25 miles from Lake Toba supervolcano. Many old lava flows are on its flanks and the last known eruption, before recent times, occurred in the year 1600. Solfataric activities (cracks where steam, gas, and lava are emitted) were last observed at the summit in 1912, but no other documented events had taken place until an eruption in the early hours of 29 August 2010. With the 2010 eruption, Sinabung joins other, long inactive volcanoes such as Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska which have erupted in recent years.


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