GVP volcano 334100 · no holder yet
Southern EPR at 8°S
Southern EPR at 8°S is a submarine fissure vent 2,800 m under the Pacific, last erupted in 1969.
- Type
- Fissure vent(s) (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 2,800 m below sea level
- Rock
- Basalt / Picro-Basalt
- Setting
- Rift zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 1969
- Largest known
- VEI 0, non-explosive, 1964
- Eruptions
- 1 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 8.27°S 107.95°W · The Pacific
- Region
- Southern East Pacific Rise Volcanic Province, Southern Pacific Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 334100
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).