Mangakino Volcano
Updated: May 9, 2024 10:30 GMT -
Caldera 1165 m / 3822 ft
New Zealand, -38.35°S / 175.75°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
New Zealand, -38.35°S / 175.75°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Mangakino 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 6, 10:04 pm (Auckland) | 2.4 78 km | 19 km (12 mi) to the N | Waikato, 39 km west of Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand | Info | |
Sunday, May 5, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
May 5, 04:02 pm (Auckland) | 3.0 130 km | 29 km (18 mi) to the SE | New Zealand I FELT IT | Info | |
Thursday, May 2, 2024 GMT (2 quakes) | |||||
May 2, 06:57 pm (Auckland) | 2.2 133 km | New Zealand | Info | ||
May 2, 02:46 pm (Auckland) | 2.2 107 km | New Zealand | Info | ||
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
May 1, 10:21 am (Auckland) | 2.9 172 km | 17 km (10.3 mi) to the NE | New Zealand | Info | |
Friday, April 26, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
Apr 27, 11:36 am (Auckland) | 2.2 186 km | New Zealand | Info |
Background
The Pleistocene Mangakino volcanic center has been the source of large-volume rhyolite ignimbrites erupted between 1.6 and 0.9 million years ago (Ma) (Wilson et al., 1984; Houghton et al., 1995). Two principal periods of activity occurred, from 1.6 to 1.53 Ma and 1.21 to 0.9 Ma (Wilson et al., 1995a). One of the largest ignimbrite eruptions of the Taupo volcanic zone took place at 1.21 Ma from Mangakino. The Titiraupenga and Pureora andesitic lava domes lie just to the south of the inferred caldera margin.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information