GVP volcano 334140 · no holder yet
Southern EPR at 18.5°S (Segment I)
Southern EPR at 18.5°S (Segment I) is a submarine fissure vent 2,600 m under the Pacific, last erupted in 1915.
- Type
- Fissure vent(s) (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 2,600 m below sea level
- Rock
- Basalt / Picro-Basalt
- Setting
- Rift zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 1915
- Largest known
- VEI 0, non-explosive, 1915
- Eruptions
- 3 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 18.53°S 113.42°W · The Pacific
- Region
- Southern East Pacific Rise Volcanic Province, Southern Pacific Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 334140
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).