{"id":118173,"date":"2026-08-09T15:23:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=118173"},"modified":"2026-08-09T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T12:05:40","slug":"mount-bromo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mount-bromo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Bromo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mount Bromo Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indonesia recently deployed aircraft and hundreds of firefighters to control a major wildfire in Mount Bromo National Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Mount Bromo<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a small but<\/span><b> active volcanic cinder cone<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located on the<\/span><b> Indonesian island of <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/java-island\/\" target=\"_blank\">Java<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in the<\/span><b> center of the Sandsea Caldera<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, itself only a portion of the <\/span><b>larger Tengger Caldera.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Sandsea caldera<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> formed around 8,000 years ago, in what must have been a massive eruption.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subsequent volcanic activity formed the cluster of cinder cones in the caldera\u2019s center, including Bromo.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The historical record indicates <\/span><b>eruptions of Bromo every few years since 1804<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and geologic evidence indicates eruptions at least several hundred years earlier.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most <\/span><b>recent eruption<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> occured in <\/span><b>2004<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and tragically killed two tourists.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 1,025 reported species of flora, of which 226 species are orchids and 260 are medicinal and ornamental plants.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/amp\/world\/story\/mount-bromo-wildfire-indonesia-deploys-aircraft-firefighters-dry-season-ptag-2967006-2026-08-09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Bromo is an active volcanic cinder cone on Java, Indonesia, located within the Sandsea Caldera of the larger Tengger Caldera. 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