GVP volcano 244030 · no holder yet
Upolu
Upolu is a 1,100 m shield volcano in Samoa, with no dated eruption on record.
- Type
- Shield
- Summit
- 1,100 m above 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
- 13.94°S 171.72°W · Samoa
- Region
- Samoan Hotspot Volcano Group, Southern Pacific Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 244030
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).