GVP volcano 243120 · no holder yet
Tafu-Maka
Tafu-Maka is a submarine fissure vent 1,400 m under the Pacific, erupting as recently as 2008.
- Type
- Fissure vent (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 1,400 m below sea level
- Rock
- Basalt / Picro-Basalt
- Setting
- Rift zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 2008
- Largest known
- VEI 0, non-explosive, 2008
- Eruptions
- 1 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 15.37°S 174.23°W · The Pacific
- Region
- Northeast Lau Basin Volcano Group, Tonga-Kermadec Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 243120
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).