GVP volcano 371022 · no holder yet
Eldey
Eldey is a 70 m fissure vent in Iceland, last erupted in 1926.
- Type
- Fissure vent (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 70 m above sea level
- Rock
- not recorded
- Setting
- Rift zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 1926
- Largest known
- VEI 4, cataclysmic, 1211
- Eruptions
- 5 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 63.73°N 23.00°W · Iceland
- Region
- Iceland Neovolcanic Rift Volcanic Province, Atlantic Ocean Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 371022
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).