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The island of New Zealand with the most active volcanoes is the North Island. There are no active volcanoes on the South Island, but there are extinct volcanoes there.
There are four volcanic regions in the North Island:
1. Auckland, Whangarei and the Bay of Islands are in the volcanic field of Northland where small eruptions forming volcanoes may occur every thousand years or so. Each volcano formed in this way erupts once only. The general area of each of these fields is active rather than a specific volcano.
2. Mt Taranaki/Egmont is a volcano on the west coast of New Zealand
3. The Taupo volcanic region in the North Island has seven volcanoes on the North Island, plus White Island off the coast in the Bay of Plenty.
Mayor Island is another volcano in the Bay of Plenty area.
There are five volcanoes above sea level in the Kermadec Islands, and several submarine volcanoes.
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∙ 9y agoAraoki, also known as Mount Cook is the highest mountain peak in New Zealand. It rises to 12.316 feet above sea level.
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∙ 8y agoMount Ruapehu is the highest volcano on New Zealand at 9175 feet or 2,797 meters.
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∙ 9y agoThere are numerous volcanoes in New Zealand. The active volcanoes in New Zealand are Ruapehu, Ngaruhoe and White Island. They are all part of the Taupo Volcanic Zone on the North Island.
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∙ 13y agoThe tallest volcano in New Zealand is Mount Ruapehu, which is 2797 metres tall.
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∙ 12y agoWhakaari (White Island), which is an island in the Bay of Plenty.
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∙ 13y agoThe Taupo eruption about 1800 years ago is thought to be the largest eruption in the world for 5000 years, The effects of this eruption were recorded by observers in China and Rome.
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∙ 13y agoAoraki/Mount Cook.
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When was the largest volcanic eruption in New Zealand history?
There have been a couple of VEI 8 (Volcanic Explosive Index) volcanic events in NZ in history.Taupo, about 26 500 years ago erupted about 1000 cubic km of ash and debris.Whakamaru, in the same Taupo Volcanic field, erupted about 345 000 years ago and produced between 1200 and 2000 cubic km of material.In more recent times, cAD176, there was a large eruption from Taupo, and the resulting red skies are recorded in Roman and Chinese writings. About 30km3 was erupted, mainly ash.
Where did the greatest volcanic eruption occur?
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What is a cater in volcano?
A volcanic crater is the part from which the ejecta or magma are emitted. Commonly a conical depression is left due to the withdrawal of the magma chamber that created the eruption. Sometimes infilled with a crater lake. If the eruption was of the highly explosive variety, there may not be very much of a mountain form surrounding the crater. Examples would include L Taupo in New Zealand, and the Yellowstone caldera.
Where did the last volcano erupt and what year?
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What is the biggest eruption Mount Etna ever had?
In recent history, the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora has been the most violent volcanic eruption and also the most deadly, killing 92,000 people. This eruption also resulted in a major climatic change, causing what was known as "The Year Without a Summer". During the summer of 1816 Europe experienced frost and snow during the month of July, this caused widespread famine and crops worldwide to fail.In the past 5,000 years, the "Taupo", New Zealand eruption was the biggest ever witnessed and recorded by humans. This occurred approximately 1800 years ago. The eruption lasted for several weeks and produced a sequence of pumice deposits which blanketed the landscape east of current day lake Taupo. Approximately 30km³ of pumice, ash and rock fragments were ejected in just a few minutes. These fragments travelled horizontally, as a liquid flow, and moved at speeds estimated to be somewhere between 600-900kmh. It crossed every obstacle in its path except the top of New Zealand's current highest volcano - Mt Raupehu. An eruption column 50 metres high was produced (twice as high as the 1980 Mt St Helen's eruption column), and the effects were seen in the sky as far away as Europe and China where records of it are still recorded to this day.As for archaeological history, it's a toss up between the Toba Caldera, Sumatra Indonesia, which erupted approximately 74,000 BC, and the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff Eruption of Yellowstone Caldera, USA, which occurred approximately 2.1 million years ago.In geologic history, it might be the the La Garita Caldera eruption in Colorado, about 28 million years ago, in the Oligocene Epoch. That put 5000 cubic kilometers of lava into play. There may be larger ones, but the farther back in time we go, the more geologic evidence is destroyed by tectonic activity.Finally, it is likely that the most powerful eruptions ever were the Siberian Traps about 250 million years ago. The highest ranking on the volcanic scale is VEI 8; These are super eruptions. Yellow Stone and Lake Toba caldera were both VEI8's and Tambora was a VEI 7. But the Siberian traps would have been far off the scale. The Siberian traps were likely responsible for a mass extinction: the death of 95% of all life on Earth.
Which is the biggest lake in New Zealand Where is it?
Lake Taupo, in Taupo, central North Island. It was formed by a large volcanic eruption
The biggst eruption in new zealand history?
this is the biggest volcano eruption in New zealand
When did New Zealand last experience a major volcanic eruption?
2008 Ruapehu
Where was the tallest geyser eruption ever recorded?
New Zealand
Is ETNA the biggest volcano in the world?
No. The largest active volcano in the world, in terms of volume and height, is Mauna Loa in Hawaii. The largest volcanic eruption in recorded history was Santorini, in the Mediterranean Sea, around 1630 BCE. The Taupo eruption in New Zealand in the year 186 CE was larger, but no one lived there, so it cannot be considered to be in "recorded history". The largest eruption for which there is firm geologic evidence is the La Garita Caldera eruption in Colorado, about 28 million years ago.
What was the biggest earthquake ever recorded in new zealand?
The biggest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand was the Wairarapa earthquake in 1855. This earthquake had a magnitude of 8.2.
What is a Caldera and give an example of one found in New Zealand?
A caldera is a depression in the earth that was the site of a volcanic eruption. A caldera in New Zealand is Lake Rotorua.
When was the largest volcanic eruption in New Zealand history?
There have been a couple of VEI 8 (Volcanic Explosive Index) volcanic events in NZ in history.Taupo, about 26 500 years ago erupted about 1000 cubic km of ash and debris.Whakamaru, in the same Taupo Volcanic field, erupted about 345 000 years ago and produced between 1200 and 2000 cubic km of material.In more recent times, cAD176, there was a large eruption from Taupo, and the resulting red skies are recorded in Roman and Chinese writings. About 30km3 was erupted, mainly ash.
What are some volcanic hazards in new Zealand?
The state of volcanic hazard in New Zealand is shown, on a scale of 1 - 5, in the website Geonet.org.nz. The biggest volcanic hazard (averaged over a few thousand years) is Taupo. And more broadly, the Taupo Volcanic Zone in general. Taupo has erupted about 27 times in the last 26 000 years, and the last significant eruption was about AD120. As a matter of record, the H2S gas at the Rotorua geothermal area has killed a few folk in the last decade, and unwary footsteps in the geyser field have taken another few.
What is the world's biggest crater lake in new zealand?
The biggest crater lake in New Zealand would be Lake Taupo. I believe there are bigger crater lakes elsewhere in the world. Lake Manicouagan in Canada, is about 100km wide, but is not volcanic.
Where in the world is Taupo located?
Taupo is an active volcano in New Zealand. It is just in the inside curve of the bay, in an area also known as Waikato. Lake Taupo was created after a volcanic eruption.
Is rotorua the biggest city in New Zealand?
No. The biggest city in New Zealand is Auckland.
