Sangeang Api in Indonesia seen in October 2000. Image: Jack Z / Wikimedia Commons. Indonesia is a very busy place, volcanically speaking. Sometimes, the rumblings at different volcanoes change so quickly that you can lose track of which ones are showing new signs of activity and which have been restless for years. In the past few months, we've seen a few volcanoes come back into "restless" column, so I thought I'd try to catch us up on them.
Sangeang Api (which I've also seen written as one word - Sangeangapi; above) is in the Lesser Sunda Islands and hasn't erupted since 1999. (At least it is the last confirmed eruption.) Currently, the volcano sits on orange/3 alert, meaning that there are signs of increased unrest -- however, finding additional information about activity there has been problematic. Checking out the map overlay on Volcano Discovery, you can see that a small ...
