The biggest mountain a western Java (gunung ciremai)

Mount Ceremai

Mount Ceremai administratively included in the three districts, namely Kabupaten Cirebon, Kuningan and Majalengka Regency, West Java Province.
Now Mount Ceremai belonging to the National Park area of Mount Ciremai (TNGC), which has a total area of approximately 15,000 hectares.
Mount Ceremai including Quaternary active volcano, type A (ie, magmatic volcanoes is still active since 1600), and shaped strato. This mountain is a volcano solitary, separated by a Fault Zone Cilacap - Brass from the group of West Java volcanoes east (ie row Galunggung Mountain, Thunder Mountain, the volcano, Mount Patuha to Mount Tangkuban Boat) located in Bandung Zone.
Ceremai is the third generation volcano. The first generation is a Pleistocene volcano located next to G. Ceremai, as an advanced Plio-Pleistocene vulkanisma above Tertiary rocks. Vulkanisma second generation is Mount Gegerhalang, which before the collapse to form Gegerhalang Caldera. And vulkanisma third generation in Holocene time form of G. Ceremai that grows on the north side Gegerhalang Caldera, which is estimated to occur in about 7,000 years ago (Situmorang 1991).
Eruption G. Ceremai recorded since 1698 and the last time occurred in 1937 with the shortest rest interval of 3 years and the longest 112 years. Three eruptions in 1772, 1775 and 1805 occurred in the central crater, but did not cause significant damage. The eruption of sulfur steam and copy the new fumarola at the center of the crater wall occurred in 1917 and 1924. On June 24, 1937 - January 7, 1938 freatik eruption in the central crater and radial cracks. Distribution of ash reached an area of 52.500 square km (Kusumadinata, 1971). In 1947, 1955 and 1973 tectonic earthquake that struck the southwestern G. Ciremai, presumably related to the fault structure trending southeast - northwest. Genesis quake damaged several buildings in the area west of Maja and Talaga G. Ceremai occurred in 1990 and 2001. Tremors felt in the east to the Village Cilimus G. Ceremai.

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