Saturday, July 18, 2026 My Trip English中文
World news · travel · culture
Taiwan The Taiwan Times
台灣國際報 — Taiwan's window to the world
Mountain

Sarik Merapi

Indonesia · Asia

Sarik Merapi
Sarik Merapi. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

About

Sorikmarapi is a highly vegetated stratovolcano on Sumatra island, Indonesia. It has a 600 m wide of crater lake at the summit and some sulfur deposits. A small parasitic crater, called Danau Merah, is found at the upper southeast flank of the mountain and several solfatara fields at the eastern flank. During the 19th and 20th century, small phreatic eruptions occurred.

Kaishan Compressor, a Chinese company geothermal project accident killed 5 in 2021 by leaking hydrogen sulfide gas at the volcano.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

More mountains in Indonesia