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passengers aboard also inadvertently entered the cloud at night, and three of its four engines stopped. The crew succeeded in restarting one of the engines after descending 2,400 m (7,874 ft). Both aircraft suffered serious damage to their engines and exterior surfaces.
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For the first time since 1982 after eruptions finished and conditions seemed normal, on February 12, 2012, the status was upgraded to Alert based on changes in conditions. On 28 May 2012, it was lowered from 2 back to 1 (On a scale of 1–4).
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minutes, losing 7,500 m (24,606 ft) of its 11,500 m (37,730 ft) altitude, until the crew managed to restart the engines and land in Jakarta.
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flying downwind of the eruption suffered temporary engine failures and damage to exterior surfaces, both planes being forced to make emergency landings at
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deposits, it has become clear that the hummocks are a debris-avalanche deposit. Like these mountains, Galunggung has a
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extending through Sumatra, Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands, which has resulted from the subduction of the
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blocks revealed them to be similar to deposits on the other two volcanoes. According to
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Galunggung mountain in 2017. Nowadays, the caldera is used as a camping site
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Galunggung had its first historical eruption in 1822 that produced
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Originally, it was thought that either it had been formed by a
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and by starvation. This eruption also brought the dangers of
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flow, the landslide happened within the last 23,000 years.
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Elevation
Listing
Ribu
Coordinates
7°15′24″S 108°04′37″E / 7.2567315°S 108.0770588°E / -7.2567315; 108.0770588
Galunggung is located in Java
West Java
Indonesia
Mountain type
Stratovolcano
Last eruption
Sundanese
stratovolcano
West Java
Indonesia
Bandung
Tasikmalaya
Sunda Arc
Australian Plate
Eurasian Plate
pyroclastic flows
lahars

lahar

eruption
Volcanic Explosivity Index
traffic accidents
volcanic ash

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