Mount Ibu : Erupted Again
Mount Ibu erupted again, sending ash 4 km high, as streaks of purple lightning flashed around its crater.
- The Ibu volcano is an active stratovolcano located along the NW coast of Halmahera Island in Indonesia.
- Mount Ibu’s activities follow a series of eruptions of different volcanoes in Indonesia, which sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” and has 127 active volcanoes.
- Stratovolcano is also called a composite volcano.
- This volcanic landform is characterized by a conical shape formed by layers of volcanic material deposited during successive volcanic eruptions.
- These volcanoes tend to slope gently at the base but rise quickly near the summit to form tall mountain peaks.
- They are typically found above subduction zones, and they are often part of large volcanically active regions, such as the Ring of Fire that frames much of the Pacific Ocean.
- These are build up on height by layering lava, ash and tephra. By definition, they have alternating layers of pyroclastic and lava
