Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki | 04 Aug 2025

Source: IE 

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.