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Kaimai volcano

Volcanic field 564 m / 1850 ft
New Zealand, -37.8°S / 176.22°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5) | Reports
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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Kaimai volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than 2.58 million years ago (Pleistocene)
TimeMag. / DepthDistanceLocation
Fri, 20 Mar 2020
Fri, 20 Mar 16:46 UTCM 2.3 / 125.1 km6 kmNew Zealand
Wed, 18 Mar 2020
Wed, 18 Mar 23:52 UTCM 2.2 / 166.4 km5 kmNew Zealand
Wed, 18 Mar 03:34 UTCM 2.4 / 179.8 km9 kmNew Zealand
Mon, 16 Mar 2020
Mon, 16 Mar 09:03 UTCM 2.2 / 116.5 km24 kmNew Zealand
Fri, 13 Mar 2020
Fri, 13 Mar 13:29 UTCM 3.6 / 265.6 km21 kmNew Zealand
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Background:

The Kaimai area contains eight major outcrops of Pliocene and lower Pleistocene rhyolites (Skinner 1986). Houghton (1994 pers. comm.) found no evidence for Pleistocene domes at Kaimai.
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information


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