Indonesia · Estratovolcán
Kelut
Kelud
- Tipo
- Estratovolcán
- Altitud
- 1730 m
- Última erupción
- 2014

- Tipo
- Estratovolcán
- País
- Indonesia
- Región
- Sunda y Banda / Sunda Volcanic Arc
- Altitud
- 1730 m
- Coordenadas
- -7.935, 112.314
- Última erupción
- 2014
- Contexto tectónico
- Zona de subducción / Corteza continental (> 25 km)
- Forma volcánica
- Compuesto
- Roca principal
- Andesita / Andesita basáltica
Resumen geológico
The relatively inconspicuous Kelud stratovolcano contains a summit crater lake that has been the source of some of Indonesia's most deadly eruptions. A cluster of summit lava domes cut by numerous craters has given the summit a very irregular profile. Satellitic cones and lava domes are also located low on the E, W, and SSW flanks. Eruptive activity has in general migrated in a clockwise direction around the summit vent complex. More than 30 eruptions have been recorded since 1000 CE. The ejection of water from the crater lake during the typically short but violent eruptions has created pyroclastic flows and lahars that have caused widespread fatalities and destruction. After more than 5,000 people were killed during an eruption in 1919, an engineering project to drain the crater lake lowered the surface by more than 50 m. The 1951 eruption deepened the crater by 70 m, leaving 50 million cubic meters of water after the damaged drainage tunnels were repaired. Following more than 200 deaths in the 1966 eruption, a new deeper tunnel was constructed, and the lake's volume before the 1990 eruption was only about 1 million cubic meters.
Historial de erupciones
40 registradasGlosarioLínea de tiempo detallada
- 2014VEI 4Observado2014-02-13 – 2014-02-15Summit crater lake
- 2007VEI 2Observado2007-10-16 – 2008-04-16
- 1990VEI 4Observado1990-02-10 – 1990-03-13
- 1967VEI 1Observado1967-02-18 – 1967-02-18
- 1967VEI 1Observado1967-12-11 – 1967-12-11Crater floor at foot of Kelut Peak
- 1966VEI 4Observado1966-04-26 – 1966-04-27
- 1951VEI 4Observado1951-08-31 – 1951-08-31
- 1920VEI 2Observado1920-12-06 – 1920-12-12
- 1919VEI 4Observado1919-05-19 – 1919-05-20
- 1901VEI 3Observado1901-05-22 – 1901-05-23
- 1864VEI 2Observado1864-01-04 – 1864-01-04
- 1851VEI 2Observado1851-01-24 – fin desconocido
- 1849VEI ?Método no indicado1849-07-02 – fin desconocido
- 1848VEI 3Observado1848-05-16 – 1848-05-17
- 1835VEI 2Observado1835-07-02 – fin desconocido
- 1826VEI 4Observado1826-10-11 – 1826-10-25
- 1825VEI 2Observado1825-07-02 – fin desconocido
- 1811VEI 2Observado1811-06-05 – fin desconocido
- 1785VEI 2Observado1785 – fin desconocido
- 1776VEI 2Observado1776 – fin desconocido
- 1771VEI 2Observado1771-01-10 – fin desconocido
- 1756VEI ?Método no indicado1756 – fin desconocido
- 1752VEI 2Observado1752-05-01 – fin desconocido
- 1716VEI 2Observado1716-07-20 – fin desconocido
- 1641VEI 4Observado1641 – fin desconocido
- 1586VEI 5Observado1586 – fin desconocido
- 1548VEI 3Observado1548 – fin desconocido
- 1500VEI ?Método no indicado1500 – fin desconocido
- 1481VEI 3Observado1481 – fin desconocido
- 1462VEI 3Observado1462 – fin desconocido
- 1451VEI 3Observado1451 – fin desconocido
- 1450VEI 3Observado1450 – fin desconocido
- 1411VEI 3Observado1411 – fin desconocido
- 1395VEI 3Observado1395 – fin desconocido
- 1385VEI 3Observado1385 – fin desconocido
- 1376VEI 3Observado1376 – fin desconocido
- 1334VEI 3Observado1334 – fin desconocido
- 1311VEI 3Observado1311 – fin desconocido
- 1000VEI 3Observado1000 – fin desconocido
- 230 a. C. (±300 años)VEI ?Estimación geológica230 a. C. – fin desconocido
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Enlaces externos
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