Monte Vulture Volcano
Updated: 21 Μαΐου 2024 19:00 GMT -
Stratovolcano 1330 m / 4364 ft
Italy, 40.92°N / 15.67°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Italy, 40.92°N / 15.67°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Monte Vulture volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than 2.58 million years ago (Pleistocene)
Latest nearby earthquakes
Ώρα | Mag. / Βάθος | Απόσταση / Τοποθεσία | |||
18 Μαΐ 06:37 (Rome) | 1.9 21 km | 27 km νοτιοανατολικά | Italy: 3 km SW Pietragalla (PZ) | Περ. | |
Παρασκευή, 10 Μαΐου 2024 GMT (2 σεισμοί) | |||||
11 Μαΐ 00:21 (Rome) | 1.2 11 km | 25 km νότια | Italy: 3 km SE Ruoti (PZ) | Περ. | |
10 Μαΐ 06:48 (Rome) | 2.2 2.5 km | 30 km νοτιοδυτικά | 32 km δυτικά από Potenza, Potenza, Μπαζιλικάτα, Ιταλία | Περ. | |
Τρίτη, 7 Μαΐου 2024 GMT (1 σεισμός) | |||||
7 Μαΐ 23:51 (Rome) | 1.2 5.3 km | 27 km νοτιοδυτικά | Italy: 5 km NE Ricigliano (SA) | Περ. |
Background
The isolated Monte Vulture is a stratovolcano with a summit caldera and a few parasitic cones that erupted lavas and pyroclastics covering 150 km2. Petrologically and geochemically distinct, it is therefore classified as its own magmatic province: the Lucanian Magmatic Province, in the Apulian Region (Peccerillo, 2005). The most recent volcanic activity formed two intra-caldera maars and involved explosive eruptions of carbonate-rich tuff, with the Lago Piccolo di Monticchio maar dated at 0.141 Ma (Peccerillo, 2005; Villa and Buettner, 2009). Capaldi et al. (1985) reported the youngest dated products from Vulture as 0.42 million years old. Peccerillo (2005) give an age range of 0.8-0.13 Ma for Vulture volcanics.---
Smithsonian / GVP volcano information