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Aegina Volcano

Updated: Nov 11, 2024 15:51 GMT -
Volcanic field 530 m / 1739 ft
Saronic Gulf, Greece, 37.75°N / 23.5°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Aegina volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than 2.58 million years ago (Pleistocene)

Latest nearby earthquakes

TimeMag. / DepthDistance / Location
Nov 5, 01:50 pm (Athens)
2.7

9 km
25 km (16 mi) to the E Southern Greece  I FELT IT Info
Sunday, November 3, 2024 GMT (1 quake)
Nov 3, 04:31 pm (Athens)
2.7

3 km
29 km (18 mi) to the SE Southern Greece Info
Saturday, November 2, 2024 GMT (4 quakes)
Nov 3, 01:48 am (Athens)
1.0

11 km
Nomos Piraios, 33 km southwest of Athens, Nomarchia Athinas, Attica, Greece Info
Nov 3, 12:18 am (Athens)
1.3

9.7 km
13 km (7.9 mi) to the E Aegean Sea, 13 km east of Aegina Island, Attica, Greece Info
Nov 2, 10:32 pm (Athens)
1.1

14 km
Aegean Sea, 12 km northwest of Aegina Island, Attica, Greece Info
Nov 2, 09:49 pm (Athens)
1.2

11 km
Nomos Piraios, 48 km south of Piraeus, Attica, Greece Info

Background

Aegina is part of the Saronic Gulf Volcanic Group, in the Hellenic Volcanic Arc. The complex consists of domes and lava flows erupted from effusive monogenetic centers with low eruption rates (0.4 km3/m.y. at Aegina) (D'Alessandro et al., 2008). Activity took place between 4.7 and 2.0 Ma, during the first part of which mostly basaltic-andesitic to rhyodacitic rocks were produced. The remaining 1 m.y. of its activity produced basaltic-andesitic rocks (D'Alessandro et al., 2008; Francalanci et al., 2007). Volcanic activity had ceased in the upper Pleistocene, but a low-temperature geothermal field presently exists (Keller, 1971; Francalanci et al., 2007).
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