Amiata
Italian Peninsula Volcanic Provinces, Italy. This page separates the permanent volcano catalogue, historical eruption records, and selective weekly activity reports.
- Coordinates
- 42.90° N, 11.63° E
- Elevation
- 1,738 m
- Last recorded eruption
- Not supplied
- Historical eruption records
- 0
- Primary type
- Lava dome(s)
- Evidence
- Not supplied
- GVP database
- 5.4.0
- Catalogue revision
- Revision 1
Volcano profile
- Volcanic landform
- Minor
- Tectonic setting
- Not supplied
- Geologic epoch
- Pleistocene
- Major rock type
- Not supplied
- Region
- European Volcanic Regions
- Subregion
- Italian Peninsula Volcanic Provinces
Geological summary
Amiata is a lava dome complex located about 20 km NW of Lago di Bolsena in the southern Tuscany region of Italy. The trachydacitic domes and associated lava flows were erupted along regional ENE-WSW-trending faults. The largest of the domes is Monte Amiata (La Vetta), a compound lava dome with a trachytic lava flow that extends to the E. A massive viscous trachydacitic lava flow, 5 km long and 4 km wide, is part of the basal complex and extends from beneath the southern base of the Corno de Bellaria dome. Radiometric dates indicate a major eruptive episode about 300,000 years ago. No eruptive activity has occurred during the Holocene, but thermal activity, including cinnabar mineralization, continues at a producing geothermal field near the town of Bagnore, at the SW end of the dome complex.
Separate activity dataset
Weekly volcanic activity reports
Smithsonian/USGS weekly reports are selective and preliminary. They are not a comprehensive list of all eruptions or volcanic activity.
No weekly report appears on this page. Absence from the weekly report does not establish an absence of volcanic activity.
Historical catalogue records
Eruption history
Dates can be approximate, incomplete, or BCE. These are historical catalogue observations, not a statement about present activity.
No historical eruption records appear on this page.
Source and attribution
Source: Data: Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program, Volcanoes of the World.
View the original Smithsonian GVP recordGlobal Volcanism Program, 2026. Volcanoes of the World 5.4.0.
The GVP database is scientific documentation that changes as evidence is reviewed. Historical dates may be approximate or uncertain. This platform is not an official emergency-warning service. This entry is from GVP's preliminary Pleistocene volcano list and may be revised.
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- Source updated
- Not supplied
- Retrieved
- 11 Oct 2026, 13:07 UTC
- GVP database version
- 5.4.0
- Catalogue revision
- 1
Source-update and retrieval times describe this catalogue record. Each weekly report carries its own publication date and preliminary status.