GVP volcano 222060 · no holder yet
Menengai
Menengai is a 2,278 m shield volcano in Kenya, last erupted around 6050 BCE.
- Type
- Shield
- Summit
- 2,278 m above sea level
- Rock
- Trachyte / Trachydacite
- Setting
- Rift zone, continental, over 25 km
- Last eruption
- 6050 BCE
- Largest known
- VEI 6, colossal, 6050 BCE
- Eruptions
- 2 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 0.20°S 36.07°E · Kenya
- Region
- Kenyan Rift Volcanic Province, Eastern Africa Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 222060
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).