Aegina Volcano

Updated: May 18, 2024 14:49 GMT - refresh

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

Time	Mag. / Depth	Distance / Location
May 14, 12:04 am (Athens)	1.3 16 km	15 km (9.4 mi) to the SW	Aegean Sea, 13 km southwest of Aegina Island, Attica, Greece	Info
Sunday, May 12, 2024 GMT (1 quake)
May 12, 08:48 pm (Athens)	1.2 13 km	13 km (7.9 mi) to the S	Aegean Sea, 9.7 km south of Aegina Island, Attica, Greece	Info
Friday, May 10, 2024 GMT (1 quake)
May 10, 06:17 am (Athens)	1.3 17 km	28 km (17 mi) to the E	East Attika, 19 km south of Athens, Nomarchia Athinas, Attica, Greece	Info
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 GMT (1 quake)
May 7, 06:17 am (Athens)	1.7 15 km	26 km (16 mi) to the S	Greece: 2 Km NNW from Poros	Info

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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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