Abstract EN:

The tangkuban parahu volcano (2084 m) is a nested strato-cone which developed in the caldera of the sunda volcano in west java (indonesia). It is situated 17 km north of bandung, a city with 2. 5 millions inhabitants in 1995. Sunda-tangkuban parahu is an andesitic volcano belonging to the medium and high alkaline series and is the sole active volcano in the quaternaire volcanic chain, the so-called sunda complex. The geomorphological evolution of this region is marked by the subsidence of the sunda complex, the debris avalanches along the axis of the sunda complex, the plinian/ignimbritic eruptions of sunda-tangkuban parahu, and the reactivation of the west part of the lembang fault. The first event (0. 51-0. 105 ma) formed the basin and the fault scarps of lembang in the south of the complex, but it folded and thrusted up the northern footslopes, forming the mountain, the basin and the broken fold scarps of tambakan. The second event (between 0. 51 and 0. 105 ma, but after the subsidence) left numerous horseshoe morphologies. The third event (about 105 and 50 ka) created the calderas in the summit and the ignimbritic plateaus around the volcano. By these major eruptions, the most part of this region was covered by ash deposits; they are now deeply weathered. The javanesse equatorial climate allows erosion to incise the deposits in the uplands, forming the deep superimposed valleys in the plateaus, and the aggradation in the lowlands, forming the alluvial plains. The fourth event (about 24 ka) uplifted the old fault scarps that were buried by ash and pumice deposits, forming a new one the so-called composite fault scarps. During the 2 last centuries phreatic eruption has predominated on tangkuban parahu. The hazard and the risk of a future eruption are supposedly from phreatic and phreatomagmatic eruptions, but the recurrence of plinian/ignimbritic eruptions is possible. The pyroclastic flows and surges are considered as the most direct hazard