Indonesia · Stratovolcano
Mount Papandayan
Papandayan
- Type
- Stratovolcano
- Elevation
- 2643m
- Last eruption
- 2002
- Type
- Stratovolcano
- Country
- Indonesia
- Region
- Sunda & Banda / Sunda Volcanic Arc
- Elevation
- 2643m
- Coordinates
- -7.317, 107.731
- Last eruption
- 2002
- Tectonic setting
- Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
- Landform
- Composite
- Major rock type
- Andesite / Basaltic andesite
Geological summary
Papandayan is a complex stratovolcano at the S end of a curved volcanic massif with Kendang volcano ~9 km away at the N end, Gunung Puntang ~3.5 km NNE, and Gunung Jaya ~6 km NNE.
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From Wikipedia
Mount Papandayan is a complex stratovolcano, located in Garut Regency, to the southeast of the city of Bandung in West Java, Indonesia. It is about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the southwest of the town of Garut. At the summit, there are four large craters which contain active fumarole fields. An eruption in 1772 caused the northeast flank to collapse producing a catastrophic debris avalanche that destroyed 40 villages and killed nearly 3,000 people. The eruption truncated the volcano into a broad shape with two peaks and a flat area 1.1 km wide with Alun-Alun crater in the middle, making the mountain appear as a twin volcano; one of the peaks is called Papandayan and the other Mount Puntang.
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Eruption history
4 recordedGlossaryRecord summary
- Confirmed eruptions
- 4
- Uncertain eruptions
- 0
- Span of confirmed record
- 1772 – 2002
- Largest confirmed eruption
- VEI 3 (1772)
- Confirmed eruptions since 1900
- 3
Detailed timeline
- 2002VEI 2Observed2002-11-11 – 2002-12-19Kawah Baru, Kawah Nangklak
- 1942VEI 1Observed1942-08-15 – 1942-08-16
- 1923VEI 1Observed1923-03-11 – 1925-03-09Kawah Baru, Kawah Nangklak
- 1772VEI 3Observed1772-08-12 – 1772-08-12
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