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Tutuila

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  • Primary Volcano Type
  • Last Known Eruption
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  • 14.2903°S
  • 170.7019°W

  • 653 m
    2142 ft

  • 244020
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This compilation of synonyms and subsidiary features may not be comprehensive. Features are organized into four major categories: Cones, Craters, Domes, and Thermal Features. Synonyms of features appear indented below the primary name. In some cases additional feature type, elevation, or location details are provided.

Eruptive History

There is data available for 1 confirmed Holocene eruptive periods.

0440 ± 200 years Confirmed Eruption Max VEI: 3 (?)

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Cones E of Pava'ia'i Village
0440 ± 200 years - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 2 Events for Episode 1 at Cones E of Pava'ia'i Village

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Ash
   - - - -    - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)
Deformation History

There is no Deformation History data available for Tutuila.

Emission History

There is no Emissions History data available for Tutuila.

Photo Gallery

The elongated, 32-km-long island of Tutuila in the center of the Samoan Islands is seen in this International Space Station view (with north to the upper right). Five Pliocene-to-Pleistocene volcanoes were constructed along rift zones, and the Pago shield volcano in the center of the island was truncated by an eroded, 9-km-wide caldera that incorporates Pago Pago harbor (right-center). Following a lengthy period of erosion, the Leone tuff cones and cinder cones were erupted during the Holocene across the southernmost portion of the island (left-center).

NASA International Space Station image ISS002-701-263, 2001 (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/).
Cliffs and an offshore island mark the rugged coastline of Tutuila Island. The elongated, extensively eroded Tutuila in the center of the Samoan Islands consists of five Pliocene-to-Pleistocene volcanoes constructed along rifts trending SSW-NNE. Following a lengthy period of erosion, submergence, and the construction of a barrier reef, the Leone volcanics were erupted during the Holocene along a 5-km-long N-S-trending fissure, forming a group of scoria cones that produced pahoehoe lava flows.

Photo by Tavita Togia, 2004 (U. S. National Park Service).
Tutuila Island is in the center of the Samoan Islands, shown in this 3 March 2019 Sentinel-2 satellite image (N is at the top; this image is approximately 44 km across). The extensively eroded island has multiple eruptive centers that have produced domes, cones, craters, and calderas.

Satellite image courtesy of Copernicus Sentinel Data, 2019.
GVP Map Holdings

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Smithsonian Sample Collections Database

The following 10 samples associated with this volcano can be found in the Smithsonian's NMNH Department of Mineral Sciences collections, and may be availble for research (contact the Rock and Ore Collections Manager). Catalog number links will open a window with more information.

Catalog Number Sample Description Lava Source Collection Date
NMNH 99715 Basalt -- --
NMNH 99716 Basalt -- --
NMNH 99717 Basalt -- --
NMNH 99718 Basalt -- --
NMNH 99719 Quartz Trachyte -- --
NMNH 99720 Trachyte -- --
NMNH 99721 Trachyte -- --
NMNH 99722 Basalt -- --
NMNH 99723 Olivine Gabbro -- --
NMNH 99724 Trachyandesite -- --
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