GVP volcano 241102 · no holder yet
Tangaroa
Tangaroa is a submarine stratovolcano 600 m under the Pacific, with no dated eruption on record.
- Type
- Stratovolcano (composite landform)
- Summit
- 600 m below sea level
- Rock
- Basalt / Picro-Basalt
- Setting
- Subduction zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- no dated eruption
- Largest known
- no eruption with a measured size
- Eruptions
- 0 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 36.32°S 178.03°E · The Pacific
- Region
- Southern Kermadec Volcanic Arc, Tonga-Kermadec Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 241102
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).