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Jailolo

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  • Last Known Eruption
  • 1.08°N
  • 127.439°E

  • 993 m
    3,258 ft

  • 268051
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The Global Volcanism Program has no activity reports available for Jailolo.

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This compilation of synonyms and subsidiary features may not be comprehensive. Features are organized into four major categories: Cones, Craters, Domes, and Thermal Features. Synonyms of features appear indented below the primary name. In some cases additional feature type, elevation, or location details are provided.

Eruptive History

The Global Volcanism Program is not aware of any Holocene eruptions from Jailolo. If this volcano has had large eruptions (VEI >= 4) prior to 12,000 years ago, information might be found on the Jailolo page in the LaMEVE (Large Magnitude Explosive Volcanic Eruptions) database, a part of the Volcano Global Risk Identification and Analysis Project (VOGRIPA).

Deformation History

There is no Deformation History data available for Jailolo.

Emission History

There is no Emissions History data available for Jailolo.

Photo Gallery

This view from the summit of Ternate Island shows the Halmahera Island volcanoes of Jailolo in the foreground, Gamkonora on the left, and flat-topped Ibu volcano on the right. Jailolo volcano has no known historical eruptions, but youthful lava flows are located on the eastern flank. Gamkonora is one of Halmahera's most active volcanoes, while Ibu, with its nested summit craters, one of which has a crater lake, has erupted only once in historical time, in 1911.

Copyrighted photo by Katia and Maurice Krafft, 1976.
Three Halmahera Island volcanoes are visible in this view from the SW at the summit of Gamalama volcano on Ternate Island. The twin caldera complex of Todoku-Ranu is on the left, the historically active volcano of Gamkonora is on the skyline at the right center, and Jailolo volcano rises above the clouds at the lower right. These volcanoes are part of a N-S chain extending along the western coast of northern Halmahera Island.

Copyrighted photo by Katia and Maurice Krafft, 1976.
The Jailolo volcanic complex (center) forms a roughly 10-km-long peninsula west of Jailolo Bay (bottom-right) in this NASA Landsat image (with north to the top). Jailolo stratovolcano in the center of the complex is flanked by small calderas to the west and SW. Kailupa cone forms the east side of the small island off the southern coast of the peninsula. Hot mudflows were reported from Jailolo volcano shortly prior to 1883, but no eruptions are known during historical time.

NASA Landsat 7 image (worldwind.arc.nasa.gov)
The Jailolo volcanic complex forms a roughly 10-km-long peninsula on West Halmahera Island, seen in this 13 September 2019 Sentinel-2 satellite image. The Jailolo cone forms the center of the peninsula, and the 2-km-diameter Idamdehe caldera is to the W. To the S of the caldera are Bobo crater and Pajo and Saria (or Kailupa hill) cones.

Satellite image courtesy of Copernicus Sentinel Data, 2019.
GVP Map Holdings

Maps are not currently available due to technical issues.

Smithsonian Sample Collections Database

There are no samples for Jailolo in the Smithsonian's NMNH Department of Mineral Sciences Rock and Ore collection.

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