# Mount Sinabung

- **Country:** Indonesia
- **Coordinates:** 3.170000, 98.392000
- **Age:** Pleistocene
- **Type:** Stratovolcano
- **Listing:** Ribu
- **Location:** Sumatra, Indonesia
- **Map Size:** 288
- **Image Size:** 300
- **Other Name:** Gunung Sinabung (Indonesian) ᯑᯩᯞᯩᯰ ᯘᯫᯉᯆᯬᯰ, Deleng Sinabung (Batak Karo)
- **Elevation M:** 2460
- **Volcanic Arc:** Sunda Arc
- **Last Eruption:** 2021
- **Label Position:** right

On 1 February 2014 a further eruption occurred that sent clouds of hot ash into the air and engulfed nearby villages. people died as a result of the eruption, which occurred just after residents living more than five kilometers from the mountain had been allowed to return home following a lack of recent volcanic activity. Among the dead were a local television journalist and four high-school students along with their teacher, who were visiting the mountain to see the eruptions up close. Seven of the victims were members of the Indonesian Christian Student Movement (GMKI), who died while trying to save local residents as pyroclastic flows swept across Mount Sinabung.

![Photo of Mount Sinabung](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Sinabung-Gundaling-20100913.JPG)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sinabung (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)