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Mount Empung
Gunung Empung
Mount Empung and Mount Lokon seen from Manado Bay.
Highest point
Elevation1,340 m (4,400 ft)
ListingVolcanoes in Indonesia
Geography
Mount Empung is located in Sulawesi
Mount Empung
Mount Empung
Location on Sulawesi island
LocationSulawesi, Indonesia
Geology
Mountain typeStratovolcano
Last eruptionMay 2014 (ongoing)[1]

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Lokon-Empung". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2006-12-31.