GVP volcano 372030 · no holder yet
Katla
Katla is a 1,490 m fissure vent in Iceland, last erupted in 1918.
- Type
- Fissure vent(s) (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 1,490 m above sea level
- Rock
- Basalt / Picro-Basalt
- Setting
- Rift zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 1918
- Largest known
- VEI 5, paroxysmal, 1755
- Eruptions
- 128 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 63.63°N 19.08°W · Iceland
- Region
- Iceland Neovolcanic Rift Volcanic Province, Atlantic Ocean Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 372030
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).