Well, yesterday I needed a day off - Thanksgiving Break had just begun here and my brain was not ready for any productivity, so now I have a little catching up, especially on all the activity in Indonesia. Here we go!
Bromo: The latest news from Indonesia is that yet another volcano has been placed on high alert, this time Bromo. The volcano itself is a scoria cone within the larger Tengger caldera system. This is common in many calderas and other systems like Crater Lake in Oregon that has multiple scoria cones within the collapse caldera. Bromo is a fairly active cone within the Tengger caldera, having last erupted in 2004. That eruption was a VEI 2 eruption - one of many over the last century. Currently, the Ministry of Mines and Energy raised the alert status at Bromo after small ash eruptions. However, the warning is mostly to ...
