Galapagos Rift, Pacific Ocean

Submarine volcano · -2,430 m (-7,972 ft) · Pacific-E

Galapagos Rift is a submarine volcano in the Pacific Ocean, -2,430 m (-7,972 ft) high. Its last known eruption: 1900 to 1963. NOAA records no significant eruption here.

Galapagos Rift on the map

Galapagos Rift and the volcanoes within 300 km, colored by when each last erupted.

Since 1964
1900 to 1963
1800s
AD 1 to 1799
Before AD 1, or undated

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The volcano

Type: Submarine volcano
Elevation: -2,430 m (-7,972 ft)
Country: Pacific Ocean
Region: Pacific-E
Summit: 0.792° N, 86.150° W
Last known eruption: 1900 to 1963
Holocene activity known from: Historical
Smithsonian volcano number: 334070

Significant eruptions

NOAA records eruptions that killed, did damage, were very large, or set off a tsunami or earthquake.

None on record.

Around it

The volcanoes within 300 km.

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Sources

Volcanoes and significant eruptions from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. Volcano numbers are the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program’s.