GVP volcano 224010 · no holder yet
Cameroon
Cameroon is a 4,095 m stratovolcano in Cameroon, erupting as recently as 2000.
- Type
- Stratovolcano (composite landform)
- Summit
- 4,095 m above sea level
- Rock
- Trachybasalt / Tephrite Basanite
- Setting
- Intraplate, continental, over 25 km
- Last eruption
- 2000
- Largest known
- VEI 3, severe, 1807
- Eruptions
- 19 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 4.20°N 9.17°E · Cameroon
- Region
- Western Africa Volcanic Province, Northern Africa Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 224010
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).