Map showing major active volcanoes of Halmahera (basemap created by UNAVCO map tool featuring Face of the Earth).
Map showing major active volcanoes of Halmahera (basemap created by UNAVCO map tool featuring Face of the Earth).
Volcano news from Halmahera
SO2 plume from Dukono (NOAA)
Thursday, May 02, 2013
An unusually large SO2 plume from Dukono suggests the volcano, in semi-permanent strombolian-type eruption for many years, is currently in a phase of elevated activity. [more]
SO2 plume from Dukono (NOAA)
Tuesday, Apr 16, 2013
Increased SO2 emissions appear on today's NOAA satellite data, suggesting the volcano is in a phase of increased activity. [more]

Volcanoes of Halmahera

Tarakan | Dukono | Tobaru | Ibu | Gamkonora | Todoko-Ranu | Jailolo | Hiri | Gamalama | Tidore | Mare | Moti | Makian | Tigalalu | Amasing | Bibinoi
Tarakan
(stratovolcano)
Tarakan is a twin volcano 16 km NE of more active Dukono. There is no known historic activity from the two large cinder cones Tarakan Lamo and Tarakan Itji ("big and small Tarakan"). [more]

Dukono
(Complex volcano)
Dukono is a remote volcano on the island of Halmahera (Indonesia). There is not much information available due to its remote position, but Dukono is one of the world's most active volcanoes and has been in persistent activity since 1933. [more]

Tobaru
(stratovolcano)
Gunung Tobaru (also known as Gunung Lolodai) is a small and little known andesitic volcano in northern Halmahera WSW of Dukono volcano and NNE of Ibu volcano. It is believed it is still active, although no recent eruptions are known. [more]

Ibu
(Stratovolcano)
Only a few eruptions have been recorded from Ibu in historical time, the first was a small explosive eruption from the summit crater in 1911. An eruption producing a lava dome that eventually covered much of the floor of the inner summit crater began in December 1998. [more]

Gamkonora
(Stratovolcano)
The 1635 m high stratovolcano fo Gamkonora is the highest peak on Halmahera.
It has had shifting shifting eruption centers that have produced an elongated series of summit craters along a N-S trending rift. Young-looking lava flows originate near the cones of Gunung Alon a... [more]

Todoko-Ranu
(complex volcano)
Todoko-Ranu Volcano in north-western Halmahera 15 km SW of Gamkonora volcano is a part of a larger volcanic complex, which contains 2 calderas. One of the calderas, Ranu caldera, contains a crater lake. [more]

Jailolo
(stratovolcano)
Jailolo stratovolcano is in the center of a volcanic complex forming a peninsula west of Jailolo Bay on the western coast of Halmahera Island. Jailolo stratovolcano has not erupted in historic times, but there are young lava flows on the eastern flank. [more]

Hiri
(stratovolcano)
Hiri is a small 3-km-wide forest covered island immediately north of Ternate Island and the tip of a mostly submerged stratovolcano. It forms the northernmost of a volcanic chain off the western coast of Halmahera. There are no known historic eruptions. [more]

Gamalama
(Stratovolcano)
Gamalama (Peak of Ternate) is a near-perfect conical stratovolcano that forms the entire island of Ternate off the western coast of Halmahera. It is one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes. [more]

Tidore
(stratovolcano)
Tidore volcanic complex forms a conisits of 2 volcanoes, the beautiful and conical Kiematabu peak (1730 m) in the south and the lower, broad volcano of Sabale volcano in north, containing a caldera and two cinder cones. Kiematabu peak is the highest volcano of the North Maluku is... [more]

Mare
(stratovolcano)
Mare volcano forms a small 2x3 km wide island off the west coast of Halmahera, Indonesia. It belongs to the active volcanic chain off the western coast of Halmahera. Mare volcano has a breached crater at the SW end. There are no known historic eruptions. [more]

Moti
(stratovolcano)
Moti (also spelled Motir) volcano forms a 5 km wide island surrounded by coral reefs north of Makian volcano. It is part of the N-S aligned chain of volcanoes off the W coast of Halmahera Island, Indonesia. [more]

Makian
(Stratovolcano)
Makian volcano is one of Inondesia's most destructive volcanoes. It has had infrequent, but violent eruptions that have devastated villages on the island. Its eruption have been recorded since about 1550; the major eruptions in 1646, 1760-61, 1861-62, 1890, and 1988 caused extens... [more]

Tigalalu
(stratovolcano)
Gunung Tigalalu (Mount Tigalalu) at the northern end of Kayoa Island lies almost exactly on the equator and is the southernmost of the volcanic chain off the W coast of Halmahera. The volcano has not erupted in historic times. [more]

Amasing
(stratovolcano)
Amasing volcano lies off the southern coast of Halmahera Island, Indonesia, on the small island of Bacan (Palau Batjan). Bukit Amasing (Amasing Hill) is the largest and NW most of 3 small andesitic volcanoes, the other two being Cakasuanggi and Dua Saundara. No recent activity is... [more]

Bibinoi
(stratovolcano)
Bibinoi volcano (Bukit Bibinoi, Bibinoi Hill) on the SE tip of Bacan Island is the largest and SE most of 3 volcanoes on the island, located off the south coast of Halmahera Island, Indonesia. Two other, smaller volcanic centres are Songsu and Lansa.
Binibnoi is separated ... [more]
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