GVP volcano 331021 · no holder yet
Axial Seamount
Axial Seamount is a submarine fissure vent 1,410 m under the Pacific, erupting as recently as 2015.
- Type
- Fissure vent(s) (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 1,410 m below sea level
- Rock
- Basalt / Picro-Basalt
- Setting
- Rift zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 2015
- Largest known
- VEI 0, non-explosive, 2015
- Eruptions
- 12 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 45.95°N 130.00°W · The Pacific
- Region
- Northeast Pacific Rifts Volcanic Province, Eastern Pacific Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 331021
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).