GVP volcano 242001 · no holder yet
Wright
Wright is a submarine stratovolcano 900 m under the Pacific, with no dated eruption on record.
- Type
- Stratovolcano(es) (composite landform)
- Summit
- 900 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
- 31.85°S 179.18°W · The Pacific
- Region
- Middle Kermadec Volcanic Arc, Tonga-Kermadec Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 242001
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).