Monte Vulture Volcano
Updated: Apr 23, 2024 19:13 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 20, 12:31 pm (Rome) | 1.7 5 km | 29 km (18 mi) to the SW | 26 km west of Potenza, Potenza, Basilicate, Italy | Info | |
Friday, April 19, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
Apr 19, 05:46 am (Rome) | 1.7 4.8 km | 29 km (18 mi) to the SW | 30 km west of Potenza, Potenza, Basilicate, Italy | Info | |
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
Apr 17, 09:05 pm (Rome) | 2.1 1.2 km | 29 km (18 mi) to the SW | Italy: 3 km N Ricigliano (SA) | 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 | |
Saturday, April 13, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
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 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.---
Smithsonian / GVP volcano information