GVP volcano 383040 · no holder yet
Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria is a 1,950 m fissure vent in Spain, last erupted in 40 CE.
- Type
- Fissure vent(s) (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 1,950 m above sea level
- Rock
- Trachybasalt / Tephrite Basanite
- Setting
- Intraplate, intermediate, 15–25 km
- Last eruption
- 40 CE
- Largest known
- no eruption with a measured size
- Eruptions
- 11 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 28.00°N 15.58°W · Spain
- Region
- Canary Volcanic Province, Northern Africa Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 383040
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).