Ischia

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  • Italy
  • Italy
  • Complex
  • 1302
  • Country
  • Subregion Name
  • Volcano Type
  • Last Known Eruption
  • 789 m
    2588 ft
  • 40.730°
  • 13.897°
  • Elevation
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  • Latitude
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Summary of eruption dates and Volcanic Explosivity Indices (VEI).

Start Date Stop Date Eruption Certainty VEI Evidence Activity Area or Unit
1302 Jan 18 1302 Mar Confirmed   Historical Arso
1290 (?) Unknown Confirmed   Radiocarbon (corrected) FBT tephra
820 ± 300 years Unknown Confirmed   Radiocarbon (corrected) Near Arso, FiT tephra
540 ± 150 years Unknown Confirmed   Radiocarbon (corrected) Montagnone-Moschiata area, BCT tephra
295 ± 10 years Unknown Confirmed   Historical Vateliero, Molara-Cava Nocelle, Rotaro
145 (?) Unknown Confirmed   Historical
80 ± 1 years Unknown Confirmed   Historical
[ 69 ] [ Unknown ] Uncertain    
40 ± 75 years Unknown Confirmed 3 Radiocarbon (corrected) Near Bosco della Maddalena, Cretaio Tephra
6 BCE ± 20 years Unknown Confirmed   Historical
91 BCE Unknown Confirmed   Historical
200 BCE ± 200 years Unknown Confirmed   Magnetism Ischia Porto (Spiaggia dei Pescatori)
370 BCE ± 150 years Unknown Confirmed   Magnetism Ischia Porto (San Pietro)
470 BCE (?) Unknown Confirmed   Historical Bosco dei Conti and Fondo Ferraro ?
490 BCE ± 150 years Unknown Confirmed   Magnetism Case Balestrieri?, Cava Nocelle?
700 BCE ± 75 years Unknown Confirmed   Tephrochronology Costa del Lenzuolo
930 BCE ± 150 years Unknown Confirmed   Radiocarbon (corrected) SE of Selva del Napolitano, CaT tephra
1480 BCE ± 300 years Unknown Confirmed   Magnetism Castiglione
2350 BCE ± 1000 years Unknown Confirmed   Potassium-Argon Costa Sparaina
2700 BCE ± 1000 years Unknown Confirmed   Tephrochronology Punta della Cannuccia
3050 BCE ± 1000 years Unknown Confirmed   Potassium-Argon Cantariello
3580 BCE ± 300 years Unknown Confirmed   Radiocarbon (corrected) Submarine SE flank (Secca d'Ischia)
3880 BCE ± 200 years Unknown Confirmed   Magnetism Zaro, Marecocco, Spiaggia degli Inglesi
7550 BCE ± 1000 years Unknown Confirmed   Potassium-Argon Selva del Napolitano, Piedmonte

The Ischia volcanic complex forms a rectangular, 6 x 9 km island immediately SW of the Campi Flegrei area at the western side of the Bay of Naples. The eruption of the trachytic Green Tuff ignimbrite about 56,000 years ago was followed by caldera formation. The high point on the island, 789-m-high Monte Epomeo, is a volcanic horst composed of the Green Tuff ignimbrite deposit that was submerged after its eruption and then uplifted. Volcanism on the island has been significantly affected by tectonism that formed a series of horsts and grabens; at least 800 m of uplift has formed as a result of resurgent doming during past 33,000 years. Many small monogenetic volcanoes were formed around the uplifted block. Volcanism during the Holocene produced a series of pumiceous tephras, tuff rings, lava domes, and lava flows, and a major collapse of Mount Epomeo produced a large submarine debris-avalanche deposit. The latest eruption of Ischia, in 1302 AD, produced a spatter cone and the Arso lava flow, which reached the NE coast.