Monday, August 23, 2010

Mount Talang


Mount Talang (Salasi or Sulasi other name) is a volcano located located in Solok regency, West Sumatra province, Indonesia.
Mount Talang is located about 9 km from the town of Solok Arosuka district capital, and about 40 km east of the city of Padang.
This type of stratovolcano mountain with an altitude of 2597 m, is one of the active volcano in West Sumatra, and one of the crater became a lake called Lake Talang. Mount Talang has been erupting since 1833 until the year 2007 [2].
There are four districts that residents living around the foot of this mountain, the district Gumanti Valley, Twin Lakes, Mount Talang, and Lembang Jaya. Total population in the four districts it reached 160 000 inhabitants, or one third of the total population of Solok district.
On April 11, 2005, Mount Talang erupted again. Followed by a rumble of earthquake and volcanic eruption that emits dust had lasted at least 42 times. In Aia Batumbuak, the location closest to the source of the eruption, raining ash reaches a radius of 5 km, while the thickness of dust on the road to reach 10 cm. On the south side of Mount Talang formed a new crater that emits smoke and brimstone raining volcanic dust. As many as 27,000 residents to be evacuated from the area.

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