Monte Vulture Volcano
Updated: Apr 16, 2024 09:40 GMT -
Stratovolcano 1330 m / 4364 ft
Italy, 40.92°N / 15.67°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Italy, 40.92°N / 15.67°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Monte Vulture 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 | |||
| Apr 13, 07:32 am (Rome) | 1.5 6.7 km | 27 km (17 mi) to the SW |  Italy: 3 km S Muro Lucano (PZ) | Info | |
| Wednesday, April 10, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
| Apr 10, 10:30 pm (Rome) | 1.7 5 km | 28 km (18 mi) to the SW | Italy: 4 km NE Ricigliano (SA) | Info | |
| Tuesday, April 9, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
| Apr 9, 07:11 pm (Rome) | 3.0 5.3 km | 29 km (18 mi) to the SW | Italy: 286 Km WNW from Othonoi | Info | |
| Monday, April 8, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
| Apr 8, 02:45 pm (Rome) | 2.1 9.8 km | 22 km (14 mi) to the NE | Potenza, Basilicate, 21 km south of Cerignola, Foggia, Apulia, Italy | Info | |
| Wednesday, April 10, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
| Apr 11, 01:22 am (Rome) | 1.0 25 km | 27 km (17 mi) to the S | Italy: 6 km SE Ruoti (PZ) | Info | |
Background
The isolated Monte Vulture is a stratovolcano with a summit caldera and a few parasitic cones that erupted lavas and pyroclastics covering 150 km2. Petrologically and geochemically distinct, it is therefore classified as its own magmatic province: the Lucanian Magmatic Province, in the Apulian Region (Peccerillo, 2005). The most recent volcanic activity formed two intra-caldera maars and involved explosive eruptions of carbonate-rich tuff, with the Lago Piccolo di Monticchio maar dated at 0.141 Ma (Peccerillo, 2005; Villa and Buettner, 2009). Capaldi et al. (1985) reported the youngest dated products from Vulture as 0.42 million years old. Peccerillo (2005) give an age range of 0.8-0.13 Ma for Vulture volcanics.---
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