Ureparapara Volcano
Updated: Apr 23, 2024 07:14 GMT -
Stratovolcano 764 m / 2507 ft
Vanuatu, -13.53°S / 167.32°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Vanuatu, -13.53°S / 167.32°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Ureparapara volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than 2.58 million years ago (Pleistocene)
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Background
The 8-km-wide Ureparapara Island is topped by a 5-km-wide erosional caldera that is breached by the sea on the NE. Sapper (1917) states that Ureparapara must have still been active in 1872, but the the latest activity occurred during the Pleistocene (Ash et al. 1980).---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information