Undersea features · Cone
Walvis Ridge at 33°S
- Type
- Cone
- Elevation
- 1200m (submarine)
- Last eruption
- 2002
- Type
- Cone
- Country
- Undersea features
- Region
- Atlantic Ocean / Southern Atlantic Volcano Group
- Elevation
- 1200m (submarine)
- Coordinates
- -32.958, -5.220
- Last eruption
- 2002
- Tectonic setting
- Intraplate / Oceanic crust (< 15 km)
- Landform
- Minor
- Major rock type
- No data
Geological summary
Hydrophones in the North Atlantic Ocean recorded signals from an explosive eruption in the South Atlantic along the Walvis Ridge about 780 km NE of Tristan da Cunha Island (Haxel and Dziak, 2005).
Excerpt from the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution · Read the full summary on GVP →
Eruption history
1 recordedGlossaryRecord summary
- Confirmed eruptions
- 1
- Uncertain eruptions
- 0
- Span of confirmed record
- 2001 – 2002
- Largest confirmed eruption
- VEI 0 (2001)
- Confirmed eruptions since 1900
- 1
Summary (VEI over time)
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Detailed timeline
- 2001VEI 0Observed2001-11-24 – 2002-03-16Seamount NW of Wüst seamount
Nearby volcanoes
External links
- Not yet mapped on Wikidata.
- Smithsonian GVP source page
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