Do any volcanoes erupt in regular cycles eg every 10 years?
Are there any dormant volcanoes in Australia, and if so, when are they
likely to erupt?
Frances Underwood (11 years)
Hi Frances,
I don't know of any volcanoes that erupt on such a regular cycle. There are
some volcanoes that are always erupting so that if you checked back every 10
years you would see it erupting and think it was on a regular cycle. Some examples
of these constantly-erupting volcanoes are Kilauea, Erta Ale, Merapi, and Masaya.
The youngest volcanoes in Australia are a few thousand years old and are in
Queensland, and one of them is called Undara. They are strange volcanoes and
each consists of a small vent with a very long lava flow leading from it. There
are similar volcanoes down at Red Rock, Mt. Napier, Mt. Schank, and Mt Gambier.
Maybe there will be similar eruptions like these in the future, but for now I
don't think anyone is predicting one soon.
Keep tuned to the news though.
Sincerely,
Scott Rowland, University of Hawaii
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