Mount Lokon

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox mountain Mount Lokon (Template:Langx), also known as Gunung Lokon, together with Mount Empung, is a twin volcano (Script error: No such module "convert". apart) in the Tomohon, Minahasa Regency, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, roughly Script error: No such module "convert". south of Manado. Both rise above the Tondano plain and are among active volcanoes of Sulawesi. Mount Lokon has a flat and craterless top.[1] Its active crater is located on its foot, named "Tompaluan" crater.

History

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Mount Lokon view from the Pier of Manado bay, captured in 1920
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Mount Lokon erupting in 2011
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Mount Lokon view from Tomohon
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Mount Lokon unleashes an ash plume, seen from the foothills village near Tompaluan
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Black crested macaques living in the Lokon nature reserve

Lokon formed during a period of andesitic volcanism on ring fractures resulting from the Tondano caldera's early to mid-Pleistocene collapse. Recently erupted material remains andesitic in composition [2] and consists of ash plumes and, less commonly, pyroclastic flows and lava domes.[1]

The volcano erupted on 15 July 2011, forcing thousands of people to evacuate.[3]

The volcano again began showing signs of activity on 10 February 2012, and 19 September 2012 (11:01pm). An eruption occurred at 8:20, am[4] the same day sending an ash plume two miles into the sky. Local residents were evacuated from a two and a half mile exclusion zone around the volcano.[5] An eruption occurred on 17 December 2012.

Indonesia has 129 volcanoes including Mount Lokon. The eruption of Mount Lokon in 1991 killed a Swiss hiker and forced thousands of people to flee their homes.[6]

See also

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