Maninjau Volcano

Updated: May 19, 2024 09:37 GMT - refresh

Caldera 1724 m / 5656 ft
Indonesia, -0.35°S / 100.2°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Maninjau volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)

Latest nearby earthquakes

Time	Mag. / Depth	Distance / Location
May 9, 09:54 pm (Jakarta)	2.1 10 km	17 km (10.5 mi) to the NE	Kabupaten Agam, 6.3 km northwest of Bukittinggi, Sumatra Barat, Indonesia	Info

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Background

Maninjau caldera is the largest silicic volcanic center in the Padang area of central Sumatra. The elongated caldera, filled by a lake, was formed during three Pleistocene eruptive episodes. K-Ar dating on the andesites and tuffs surrounding the caldera yielded ages of 0.83 +/- 0.42 Ma for older pre-caldera andesites (Barber et al., 2005). The youngest rhyolitic ashflow deposit was dated at about 0.28 +/- 0.12 million years (Leo et al., 1980; Barber et al., 2005).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information