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Batu Tara is a stratovolcano located on the small isolated island known as Komba. It has a large central summit crater 900 x 700 meters in diameter, often giving impressive displays of strombolian eruptions. The volcano’s eruptive activity has currently ceased.
Location: | Flores Sea, Indonesia |
Coordinates: | -7.789045, 123.586703 |
Volcano Type: | Stratovolcano |
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Batu Tara's Eruptive History
Dec 2015-Present | Intermittent gas emissions. No explosive eruptions observed. |
Nov 2015 | Eruptive activity ceased. |
2006-2015 | After many years of inactivity, Batu Tara erupted producing a large ash plume. The volcano continued to produce impressive strombolian eruptions at 15 minute intervals. |
1850 | Eruption producing lava flows and dense columns of tephra. |
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