GVP volcano 243100 · no holder yet
Fonualei
Fonualei is a 188 m stratovolcano in Tonga, last erupted in 1957.
- Type
- Stratovolcano (composite landform)
- Summit
- 188 m above sea level
- Rock
- Dacite
- Setting
- Subduction zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 1957
- Largest known
- VEI 4, cataclysmic, 1846
- Eruptions
- 6 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 18.02°S 174.32°W · Tonga
- Region
- Tofua Volcanic Arc, Tonga-Kermadec Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 243100
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).