Living with volcanoes - Indonesia

Living with volcanoes - Indonesia

• An archipelago on top of many tectonic plates with many active volcanoes.
• More than 3/4 of Indonesias inhabitants live within 100km of a volcano that has erupted in the last 10,000 years.
• More eruptions causing fatalities and damage to infrastructure than anywhere else in the world.

Indonesia's tectonic setting:

• Widespread subduction along the entire 3000km length of the archipelago
• Islands created by the subduction of the Indo-Australian plate beneath the Eurasian plate.
• Large amount of volcanoes are highly explosive…