GVP volcano 300271 · no holder yet
Piip
Piip is a submarine stratovolcano 300 m under the Bering Sea, last erupted around 5050 BCE.
- Type
- Stratovolcano (composite landform)
- Summit
- 300 m below sea level
- Rock
- Dacite
- Setting
- Subduction zone, intermediate, 15–25 km
- Last eruption
- 5050 BCE
- Largest known
- no eruption with a measured size
- Eruptions
- 1 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 55.42°N 167.33°E · The Bering Sea
- Region
- Aleutian Ridge Volcanic Arc, North America Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 300271
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).