Mount Empung
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]
Mount Empung | |
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Gunung Empung | |
Mount Empung and Mount Lokon seen from Manado Bay. | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,340 m (4,400 ft) |
Listing | Volcanoes in Indonesia |
Coordinates | 1°21′30″N 124°47′30″E [1] |
Geography | |
Mount Empung Location on Sulawesi island | |
Location | Sulawesi, Indonesia |
Geology | |
Mountain type | Stratovolcano |
Last eruption | May 2015 (ongoing)[1] |
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