Volcanoes by country
United KingdomMap, activity and eruption history
The Holocene catalogue of the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program lists 14 volcanoes in United Kingdom. This page brings together the map, report status, eruption history and the surroundings of every single volcano. None of them currently has a running eruption report.
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Every volcano in the country with plate boundaries, air traffic within 50 km, airports and nuclear power plants. Earthquakes can be added on top.
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Sorted by report status and elevation. Every entry opens the full volcano profile.
“Last eruption” is a catalogue record, not evidence of activity in progress.
Eruptions with fatalities, damage or high explosivity from the NOAA NCEI database of significant volcanic eruptions.
The Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) runs from 0 (effusive) to 8 (super-eruptive). Each step stands for roughly ten times the erupted mass.
Documented eruptions since 1500. Earlier centuries are recorded less completely, so a rise also reflects better observation.
0 events in the last 30 days within 50 km of a volcano in United Kingdom.
No event within 50 km of a volcano in United Kingdom was recorded in the last 30 days.
Spatial proximity does not establish a volcanic origin. Many events in volcanic regions are tectonic.
What the volcanic landscape of United Kingdom is made of and which tectonic setting it sits in.
Airports with scheduled service and nuclear power plant sites near a volcano in United Kingdom.
No site from the included datasets lies within this radius.
This selection shows geographic proximity, not a hazard zone or confirmed impacts.
Short descriptions of the country's best-known volcanoes.
Tristan da Cunha, colloquially known as Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is one of three constituent parts of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, with its own constitution.
Montagu Island is the largest of the South Sandwich Islands, located in the Scotia Sea off the coast of Antarctica. Almost entirely ice-covered with only sparse rocky outcrops, Montagu consists of a large caldera with a large parasitic cone, Mount Oceanite. Several secondary volcanic cones have formed in the caldera, including Mount Belinda.
Bristol Island is an uninhabited island in the South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago in the Southern Ocean. The island is almost entirely surrounded by ice cliffs and largely covered with ice. It features both the oldest rocks of this archipelago and an active volcano that last erupted in 2016.
Bellingshausen Island is a small, uninhabited volcanic island in the Southern Thule group of the South Sandwich Islands, in the South Atlantic Ocean. It lies approximately 7.6 kilometres (4.7 mi) northeast of Cook Island and 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) east of Thule Island. The island is a youthful stratovolcano composed of basaltic andesite, rising to 255 metres (837 ft) at Basilisk Peak. Its most recent crater, approximately 150 metres (490 ft) wide and 60 metres (200 ft) deep, formed during an explosive eruption between 1968 and 1984.
The Soufrière Hills is an active, complex stratovolcano with many lava domes forming its summit on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. After a long period of dormancy, the Soufrière Hills volcano became active in 1995 and continued to erupt until 2010. Its last eruption was in 2013. Its eruptions have rendered more than half of Montserrat uninhabitable, destroying the capital city, Plymouth, and causing widespread evacuations: about two-thirds of the population have left the island. Chances Peak in the Soufrière Hills was the highest summit on Montserrat until the mid-1990s, but it has since been eclipsed by various rising and falling volcanic domes during the recent volcanic activity.
Mount Michael is an active stratovolcano on Saunders Island in the remote South Sandwich Islands of the South Atlantic Ocean. It is one of only a few volcanoes on Earth confirmed to host a persistent lava lake within its summit crater.
Short descriptions: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
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