GVP volcano 265090 · no holder yet
Banda Api
Banda Api is a 596 m caldera in Indonesia, last erupted in 1988.
- Type
- Caldera (composite landform)
- Summit
- 596 m above sea level
- Rock
- Dacite
- Setting
- Subduction zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 1988
- Largest known
- VEI 3, severe, 1988
- Eruptions
- 23 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 4.52°S 129.88°E · Indonesia
- Region
- Inner Banda Volcanic Arc, Sunda-Banda Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 265090
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