Mount Sinabung - Geology

Geology

For more details on this topic, see List of volcanoes in Indonesia.

Most of Indonesian volcanism stems from the Sunda Arc, created by the subduction of the Indo-Australian Plate under the Eurasian Plate. This arc is bounded on the north-northwest by the Andaman Islands, a chain of basaltic volcanoes, and on the East by the Banda Arc, also created by subduction.

Sinabung is an andesitic-dacitic stratovolcano with a total of four volcanic craters, only one being active.

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