Rabu, 17 September 2014

MOUNTAIN SLAMET ERUPTS

Mount Slamet (3428 meters above sea level.) Is a volcano located on the island of Java. The mountain is located on the border of Bradford district, Banyumas, Purbalingga, Tegal regency, and Pemalang, Central Java, and is the highest in Central Java and the second highest in Java. IV is the last crater crater which is still active today, and the active standby last until mid-2009 levels.
Mount Slamet quite popular as a target known to climb despite the difficult terrain. At the foot of this mountain is a tourist area that became the mainstay of Banyumas Baturraden because only about 15 miles from Navan.

As with other volcanoes in Java, Mount Slamet formed by subduction of the Indo-Australian Plate Eurasian Plate in the southern island of Java. Cracks in the plates open lines of lava to the surface. Note eruptions known since the 19th century. The mountain is an active and often have small-scale eruption. The last activity was in May and June 2009 and still continue to release lava. [1] Previously he recorded eruption in 1999.


Mount Slamet in March 2014 showed the activity and status to Alert. Based on data PVMBG, vukanik activity of Mount Slamet still fluctuating. After the earthquake eruption had occurred up to 171 times on Friday, March 14, 2014 from 00:00 to 12:00 o'clock pm, the same time period, there were 57 earthquakes eruption. There were also 51 times gust. Visual monitoring, a puff of thick white smoke is out of the crater to the east up to as high as 1 km
Dutch historian, J. Noorduyn theorized that the name "Slamet" is relatively new, that is, after the advent of Islam to Java (it is a loan word from Arabic). He expressed the opinion that the so-called Mount Agung in the Sundanese language manuscript Bujangga adventure Bead is Mount Slamet, based on the exposure of the locations mentioned




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