Kaimai volcano

Updated: Aug 8, 2022 22:26 GMT - Refresh

Volcanic field 564 m / 1850 ft
New Zealand, -37.8°S / 176.22°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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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)
Lastest nearby earthquakes:

Time	Mag. / Depth	Distance/Location
Sunday, August 7, 2022 GMT (1 quake)
Aug 7, 2022 4:00 pm (GMT +12) (Aug 7, 2022 04:00 GMT)	2.7 97 km	33 km (21 mi) Waikato, 28 km west of Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New 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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