Mota volcano

Updated: Aug 11, 2022 17:31 GMT - Refresh

Stratovolcano 411 m / 1348 ft
Vanuatu, -13.85°S / 167.68°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Mota volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than 2.58 million years ago (Pleistocene)
Lastest nearby earthquakes: No recent earthquakes

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Background

The 5-km-wide Mota Island is comprised of the eroded vent-filling intrusive of a Pleistocene volcano that rises above a wide raised Holocene platform of reef limestones.
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information

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