Mount Semeru:
The Mount Semeru in Indonesia erupted multiple times and sent thick columns of ash up to 1,100 metres above its summit.
- It is located in East Java, Indonesia.
- It is one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia.
- It is positioned within a subduction zone, where the Indo-Australian plate subducts beneath the Eurasia plate.
- It is the highest peak on Java Island and sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”.
- It lies at the southern end of a volcanic massif extending north to the Tengger caldera.
- Summit topography is complicated by the shifting of craters from NW to SE.
- Semeru, also known as Mahameru, has erupted numerous times in the past.
