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Southern EPR at 8°S

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  • Country
  • Volcanic Region
  • Landform | Volc Type
  • Last Known Eruption
  • 8.27°S
  • 107.95°W

  • -2,800 m
    -9,186 ft

  • 334100
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The Global Volcanism Program has no activity reports available for Southern EPR at 8°S.

The Global Volcanism Program has no Weekly Reports available for Southern EPR at 8°S.

The Global Volcanism Program has no Bulletin Reports available for Southern EPR at 8°S.

Eruptive History

There is data available for 1 confirmed Holocene eruptive periods.

1964 Jul 2 (?) ± 182 days - 1969 Jul 2 (?) ± 182 days Confirmed Eruption (Submarine) VEI: 0

Episode 1 | Eruption (Submarine) East Pacific Rise (8.3°S)
1964 Jul 2 (?) ± 182 days - 1969 Jul 2 (?) ± 182 days Evidence from Observations: Reported
 A lava flow covered ~220 km2 (15 ± 4 km3) of the East Pacific Rise axis crest at about 8°S. The high reflectivity of the flow, coupled with teleseismically recorded earthquakes of an unusual magnitude along this segment and the presence of a helium megaplume of a volume consistent with the eruption of a lava flow of this volume detected several years later at a distant location consistent with inferred circulation patterns at mid-ocean depths, led Macdonald et al. (1989) to suggest that part or all of this lava field may have been emplaced in the past 25 years, during one or more eruptions coincident with the earthquakes and onset of the helium plume.

List of 2 Events for Episode 1 at East Pacific Rise (8.3°S)

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow
1964
(?)
   - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)

The Global Volcanism Program has no synonyms or subfeatures listed for Southern EPR at 8°S.

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Smithsonian Sample Collections Database

There are no samples for Southern EPR at 8°S in the Smithsonian's NMNH Department of Mineral Sciences Rock and Ore collection.

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