Rapid Fire
Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki
- 04 Aug 2025
- 2 min read
Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes erupted, spewing ash up to 18 km high and covering nearby villages with volcanic debris.
- Mount Lewotobi is located on the Indonesian island of Flores. It lies along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," known for intense seismic activity.
- The volcano is part of a twin-peaked system called Lewotobi, meaning "husband and wife." It consists of the Lewotobi Lakilaki (man) and Lewotobi Perempuan (woman) stratovolcanoes, whose summit craters are located less than 2 km apart on Flores Island.
- The Ring of Fire, or Circum-Pacific Belt, is a 40,000 km zone around the Pacific Ocean marked by intense seismic and volcanic activity. It hosts 75% of Earth's volcanoes (over 450) and 90% of earthquakes.
- This eruption ranks among Indonesia’s largest since 2010, when Mount Merapi erupted, killing over 350 people and displacing hundreds of thousands.
- Merapi, located in Yogyakarta, is Indonesia's highly active and known for frequent eruptions and deadly pyroclastic flows (fast-moving avalanches of hot gas and volcanic debris) posing major hazards over the past two decades.
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