Karangetang
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Karangetang, also known as Api Siau ("Fire of Siau") is a volcano on the north side of Siau Island off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The island covers 160 km2, and had 46,459 inhabitants in mid 2023. It is one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia, having erupted 41 times since 1675. A pyroclastic flow in 1997 killed three people. Karangetang is the tallest mountain in offshore North Sulawesi, at 1827 meters above sea level.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Karangetang
- Mountain.photo
- Puncak Gunung Karangetang.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- The peak of Mount Karangetang is seen from the western side of the island of Siau.
- Mountain.photo_size
- 260
- Mountain.elevation
- 1,827 m (South Peak)1,797 m (North Peak)
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1827
- Mountain.listing
- UltraRibu
- Mountain.location
- Siau, Indonesia
- Mountain.map
- Indonesia Sulawesi
- Mountain.type
- Stratovolcano
- Mountain.last_eruption
- 2023 Nov 24 (ongoing)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Indonesia
- Located in
- North Sulawesi
- Elevation
- 1784
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Material used
- andesite
- Image
- Gunung Karangetang.jpg
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- located in/on physical feature
- Siau Island
- Commons category
- Mount Karangetang
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Current activity
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- External links
Karangetang, also known as Api Siau ("Fire of Siau") is a volcano on the north side of Siau Island off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The island covers 160 km2, and had 46,459 inhabitants in mid 2023. It is one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia, having erupted 41 times since 1675. A pyroclastic flow in 1997 killed three people. Karangetang is the tallest mountain in offshore North Sulawesi, at 1827 meters above sea level.
==Current activity== In August 2007 an eruptive episode forced evacuations from nearby areas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karangetang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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