GVP volcano 334070 · no holder yet
Galapagos Rift at 86°W
Galapagos Rift at 86°W is a submarine fissure vent 2,430 m under the Pacific, last erupted in 1996.
- Type
- Fissure vent(s) (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 2,430 m below sea level
- Rock
- Basalt / Picro-Basalt
- Setting
- Rift zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 1996
- Largest known
- VEI 0, non-explosive, 1996
- Eruptions
- 2 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 0.79°N 86.15°W · The Pacific
- Region
- Galapagos Rift Volcanic Province, Eastern Pacific Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 334070
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).