Report on Sangeang Api (Indonesia) — December 1987
Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin, vol. 12, no. 12 (December 1987)
Managing Editor: Lindsay McClelland.
Sangeang Api (Indonesia) Eruptive activity continues at steady rate
Please cite this report as:
Global Volcanism Program, 1987. Report on Sangeang Api (Indonesia) (McClelland, L., ed.). Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin, 12:12. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.SEAN198712-264050
Sangeang Api
Indonesia
8.2°S, 119.07°E; summit elev. 1912 m
All times are local (unless otherwise noted)
Eruptive activity continued during November and December at ~18 explosions/day, about the same rate as in October.
Geological Summary. Sangeang Api volcano, one of the most active in the Lesser Sunda Islands, forms a small 13-km-wide island off the NE coast of Sumbawa Island. Two large trachybasaltic-to-tranchyandesitic volcanic cones, Doro Api and Doro Mantoi, were constructed in the center and on the eastern rim, respectively, of an older, largely obscured caldera. Flank vents occur on the south side of Doro Mantoi and near the northern coast. Intermittent eruptions have been recorded since 1512, most of them during in the 20th century.
Information Contacts: VSI.
