Salina Volcano

Updated: May 16, 2024 21:45 GMT - refresh

Stratovolcano(es) 962 m / 3156 ft
Eolian Islands, Italy, 38.58°N / 14.85°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Salina 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 15, 10:14 pm (Rome)	1.3 11 km	28 km (18 mi) to the SE	Tyrrhenian Sea, 8.7 km east of Vulcano Island, Messina, Sicily, Italy	Info
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 GMT (1 quake)
May 14, 07:36 pm (Rome)	2.1 15 km	22 km (14 mi) to the W	Italy: Isole Eolie (Messina)	Info
Friday, May 3, 2024 GMT (1 quake)
May 3, 01:11 pm (Rome)	2.3 6.4 km	25 km (15 mi) to the SW	Isole Eolie (Messina)	Info

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Background

Salina is made up of calc-alkaline basaltic to andesitic stratovolcanoes (Rivi, Capo, and Corvo), which are overlain by two andesitic cones (Monte Felci and Monte Porri), the latter of which erupted about 67 ka (Peccerillo, 2005). Monte Porri also underwent intense explosive activity, producing a series of tuffs that have also been identified on other nearby islands; these eruptions also produced lahars and pyroclastic surges (Guest et al., 2003). The final eruptive activity produced basaltic-dacitic-andesitic lava flows and a rhyolitic explosion crater (Pollara) (Peccerillo, 2005; Guest et al., 2003). Pollara Crater erupted about 13,000 years before present; the rest of the island is mid-upper Pleistocene, as old as 430 to 500 k.y. old (Keller, 1974; Peccerillo, 2005;Guest et al., 2003).
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