GVP volcano 381040 · no holder yet
Pico Fracture Zone
Pico Fracture Zone is a submarine fissure vent 4,200 m under the Atlantic, last erupted in 1865.
- Type
- Fissure vent (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 4,200 m below sea level
- Rock
- No Data (checked)
- Setting
- Intraplate, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 1865
- Largest known
- VEI 0, non-explosive, 1865
- Eruptions
- 1 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 38.75°N 38.08°W · The Atlantic
- Region
- Azores-Terceira Rift Volcanic Province, Atlantic Ocean Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 381040
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).