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Zenikame volcano

Updated: Nov 29, 2023 08:25 GMT - refresh

Submarine -30 m / -98 ft
Hokkaido, Japan, 41.74°N / 140.86°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Zenikame volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)

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Background

A 2-km-wide shallow submarine caldera just off the SW tip of Hokkaido, SE of Hakodate City reaches to within 30 m of the sea surface. It was the source of the Zenikame-Menagawa (Z-M) tephra about 33,000-45,000 years ago.
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information

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