Thursday, June 4, 2009

Slamet Mountain

Slamet mountain is a volcano located on the island of Java, Indonesia. Slamet mountain has a height of up to 3.432 meters. This mountain is located on the border and District Banyumas Pemalang Regency, Central Java Province.

Gunung Slamet is one of the mountain, which is the purpose of the expedition climber, both from the local area and other regions. This mountain has dipterokarp hill forest area, forest dipterokarp top, montane forest, and forest ericaceous or mountain forests.

Gunung Slamet skirt Purbalingga District, Banjarnegara, Banyumas, and Brebes. With the geographic position of 7 ° 14'30 "LS, 109 ° 12'30" BT and the height of 3432m dpl, is making the highest volcanoes in the area of Central Java. This mountain has four craters on the peak. Mountain which is located in the northern city of Purwokerto and west of the city Purbalingga also has several hot springs.

The last few months Slamet mountain activities have increased. Results and observation data in the Observation Post of Mount Slamet in Gambuhan, he said, from 26-27 April, earthquake shocks, and incandescent lava eruption from the mountain, tended to increase. On 26 April there are 222 earthquakes recorded eruption. This number increase to 333 times the earthquake eruption on 27 April. Thus, the activity of Mount Slamet not show a decline. Incandescent lava eruption also remain the same as the average altitude of between 50-600 meters.



1 comment:

Fuko said...

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