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Image GVP-06396

A brief phreatic eruption in November 1905 lasting 5 hours formed this crater at Inielika volcano. The 125-m-wide crater formed on the floor of Wolo Inielika crater, one of many craters along a N-S-trending ridge. Photo by E. Weissenborn (published in Kemmerling 1929,

A brief phreatic eruption in November 1905 lasting 5 hours formed this crater at Inielika volcano. The 125-m-wide crater formed on the floor of Wolo Inielika crater, one of many craters along a N-S-trending ridge.

Photo by E. Weissenborn (published in Kemmerling 1929, "Vulkanen van Flores," courtesy of Volcanological Survey of Indonesia).

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