Pago (Papua New Guinea)
The volcano Pago is located East of Kimbe, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Pago is a young post-caldera cone within the Witori Caldera. The Buru Caldera cuts the SW flank of the Witori volcano. Biggest eruptions were at 4000±200 BC, VEI 6, 10 cubic kilometres (2.5 mi.); 1370±100 BC, VEI6, 30 km (7 mi.); and 710±75 AD, VEI 6, 20 km (5 mi.) of tephra.
Pago erupted 8 times in the 500 years to 2002, including a major eruption in 1933. In 2002 the threat of a major eruption of Pago caused the evacuation of 15,000 people. Five volcanic explosive ash-plume advisories were issued related to Pago in the months May–July 2012.
References
- ^ "Large Holocene Eruptions". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on May 12, 2013.
- ^ Mason, Betty; Dixon, Nicola (11 October 2002). "Pago poised to blow its top". New Scientist. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Wunderman, Rick; Herrick, Julie; Kuhn Sennert, Sally; Andrews, Benjamin (September 2013). "Pago". Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network. 38 (9): 1–2.
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