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Blacks Mountain volcano

Shield 2220 m / 7283 ft
California, United States, 40.78°N / -121.19°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5) | Reports
Blacks Mountain volcano books
Typical eruption style: unspecified
Blacks Mountain volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
TimeMag. / DepthDistanceLocation
Mon, 2 Mar 2020
Mon, 2 Mar 04:46 UTCM 2.2 / 9.6 km16 km48km NW of Susanville, California
Mon, 2 Mar 04:43 UTCM 2.4 / 5.3 km16 km44km ESE of Fall River Mills, CA (USA)

Background:

Blacks Mountain, 25 km east of Hat Creek, is the most prominent of a group of andesitic shield volcanoes and is 1-2 million years old (Clynne, in Wood and Kienle, 1990).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information


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