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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Volcanic activity of the Mount Kerinci

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/MtKerinchi_view_into_crater.jpg/220px-MtKerinchi_view_into_crater.jpgKerinci is more active than most Indonesian volcanoes, with nearly annual phreatic eruptions. Kerinci last erupted in 2004, and continues to spew clouds of sulphurous smoke, with plumes reaching as high as 1,000 m (3,281 ft) above the summit. While there is farmland in the area, and a tea plantation on its southern slope, Kerinci, being located in an Indonesian national park, and perhaps out of respect for its frequent growlings as well, sits in an area that is sparsely populated by Indonesian population-density standards.


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