Mount Ile Lewotolok or Lewotolo ( id, Gunung Lewotolok) is a
stratovolcano
A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra. Unlike shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes are characterized by a steep profile with a summit crater and per ...
in the north-central part of the island of
Lembata
Lembata is an island in the Lesser Sunda Islands, also known as Lomblen island; it is the largest island of the Solor Archipelago, in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. It forms a separate regency of the province of Nusa Tenggara Timur. The len ...
in the Province of
East Nusa Tenggara
East Nusa Tenggara ( id, Nusa Tenggara Timur – NTT; pt, Sonda Oriental) is the southernmost province of Indonesia. It comprises the eastern portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, facing the Indian Ocean in the south and the Flores Sea in the nor ...
in
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
.
2020 eruptions
On 27 November, an eruption occurred at 5:57 a.m.
local time
Local time is the time observed in a specific locality. There is no canonical definition. Originally it was mean solar time, but since the introduction of time zones it is generally the time as determined by the time zone in effect, with daylight s ...
(21:57 UTC), which generated an
ash column
An eruption column or eruption plume is a cloud of super-heated ash and tephra suspended in gases emitted during an explosive volcanic eruption. The volcanic materials form a vertical column or plume that may rise many kilometers into the air a ...
that rose to an altitude 500 meters into the sky. On 29 November, two days later, a major blast took place sending an ash column as high as 50000 ft (15.24 km) into the sky.
Volcanic bombs
A volcanic bomb or lava bomb is a mass of partially molten rock (tephra) larger than 64 mm (2.5 inches) in diameter, formed when a volcano ejects viscous fragments of lava during an eruption. Because volcanic bombs cool after they l ...
have an impact radius of about 2 km from the main crater.
By Wednesday 2 December, it was reported that more than 5,500 people had been evacuated from their homes near the volcano. Residents on the slopes of Mt Ile Lewotolok had been warned of potential cold lava flows, especially during periods of heavy rain, and had been advised to remain outside of a 4-kilometer radius from the crater.
[Djemi Amnifu and Nina Loasana,]
Over 4,600 residents evacuated after Ili Lewotolok eruption'
''The Jakarta Post'', 30 November 2020 and Djemni Amnifu,
''The Jakarta Post, 2 December 2020.
See also
*
List of volcanoes in Indonesia
The geography of Indonesia is dominated by volcanoes that are formed due to subduction zones between the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate. Some of the volcanoes are notable for their eruptions, for instance, Krakatoa for its globa ...
References
External links
* {{cite gvp, name=Lewotolok, vn=264230, access-date=2021-06-24
Lewotolok Volcano Erupts on Lembata Island, Indonesia - Nov. 29, 2020
Lewotolo
Mount Ile Lewotolok or Lewotolo ( id, Gunung Lewotolok) is a stratovolcano in the north-central part of the island of Lembata in the Province of East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia.
2020 eruptions
On 27 November, an eruption occurred at 5:57 a.m ...
Lewotolo
Mount Ile Lewotolok or Lewotolo ( id, Gunung Lewotolok) is a stratovolcano in the north-central part of the island of Lembata in the Province of East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia.
2020 eruptions
On 27 November, an eruption occurred at 5:57 a.m ...
Lewotolo
Mount Ile Lewotolok or Lewotolo ( id, Gunung Lewotolok) is a stratovolcano in the north-central part of the island of Lembata in the Province of East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia.
2020 eruptions
On 27 November, an eruption occurred at 5:57 a.m ...
Lewotolo
Mount Ile Lewotolok or Lewotolo ( id, Gunung Lewotolok) is a stratovolcano in the north-central part of the island of Lembata in the Province of East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia.
2020 eruptions
On 27 November, an eruption occurred at 5:57 a.m ...
Holocene stratovolcanoes