GVP volcano 334021 · no holder yet
Northern EPR at 16°N
Northern EPR at 16°N is a submarine fissure vent 2,300 m under the Pacific, last erupted around 50 BCE.
- Type
- Fissure vent(s) (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 2,300 m below sea level
- Rock
- Basalt / Picro-Basalt
- Setting
- Rift zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 50 BCE
- Largest known
- VEI 0, non-explosive, 50 BCE
- Eruptions
- 1 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 15.83°N 105.43°W · The Pacific
- Region
- Northern East Pacific Rise Volcanic Province, Eastern Pacific Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 334021
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).