No latest activity reported for Utila Island.

Below is a summary of eruption dates and Volcanic Explosivity Indices (VEI).

The following references are the sources used for data regarding this volcano. References are linked directly to our volcano data file. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title. Additional discussion of data sources can be found under Volcano Data Criteria.

McBirney A R, Bass M N, 1969. Geology of Bay Islands, Gulf of Honduras. {Amer Assoc Petrol Geol Mem}, 11: 229-243

Williams H, McBirney A R, 1969. Volcanic history of Honduras. {Univ Calif Pub Geol Sci}, 85: 1-101

The island of Utila in the Carribean Sea off the northern coast of Honduras is the easternmost and lowest of the Bay Islands at the southern edge of the submarine Bartlett Trough. Utila is capped by a thin veneer of Holocene basaltic rocks at its eastern end (McBirney and Bass, 1969). Basaltic lavas and tuffs were erupted onto a coral-capped erosional surface. Stuert Hill (also spelled Stuart Hill) is a pyroclastic cone that was constructed at the center of the volcanic terrain, and Pumpkin Hill is a small littoral cone located along the NE coast of the island. The high point of the island is Pumpkin Hill, which rises only 74 m above sea level.