GVP volcano 371050 · no holder yet
Hengill
Hengill is an 803 m crater row in Iceland, last erupted in 150 CE.
- Type
- Crater rows (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 803 m above sea level
- Rock
- Basalt / Picro-Basalt
- Setting
- Rift zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 150 CE
- Largest known
- VEI 2, explosive, 150 CE
- Eruptions
- 13 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 64.08°N 21.42°W · Iceland
- Region
- Iceland Neovolcanic Rift Volcanic Province, Atlantic Ocean Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 371050
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).