Is there a risk of a volcanic eruption in Australia?

[fourandsixpants]

http://home.iprimus.com.au/foo7/volcmap.html

Map of Australia where earthquakes have occured. 1788 to 2008.

Enhanced Image courtesy of Claire Payne
Environmental Systems & Services Seismology Research Centre

[aps1080]

I'll worry about them IF and WHEN they occur. We are likely to get advance warnings anyway.

It's a bit like worry about the next earthquake, not much you can do about it.

In the mean time, more pressing issues, like Bushfires which WILL occur, this week !

[fourandsixpants]

There are no active volcanoes on the Australian mainland that have erupted since European settlement, however some volcanoes in Victoria and South Australia are likely to have been active and witnessed by Aboriginal people several thousand years ago. There are active volcanoes in the Heard and McDonald Islands.

This is a list of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes in Australia and its island territories - available here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_Australia

There are also deposits of basalt at Bunbury

Looking north, taken on what we Bunburians call The Back Beach.....The Lighthouse can be seen in the distance:

Tide out and basalt in full view. This did not get here via a grass fire btw.

[aps1080]

There are active volcanoes in the Heard and McDonald Islands.

LOL

4,100 kms WEST of Perth.

That's like saying we have active volcanoes on our bit of Antarctica !

Paint

"Tide out and basalt in full view. This did not get here via a grass fire btw."

I know, plenty of areas in Aus have volcanic rock.

But they are talking the future, not the past.

We don't even have a smoking volcano, or volcanic generated hot springs for that matter.

[fourandsixpants]

Yes it seems funny that volcanoes should have 'popped' into the thinking part of my brain.....but they did, so I researched some facts and 'popped' some facts in a thread.

Many are suggesting that our planet Earth is getting hotter, that the land/dirt/soil is testing hotter......others are saying that Earth is getting colder. I'm not convinced it is what many term 'Global Warming' but I am witnessing and experiencing things that absolutely convince me beyond a doubt that 'climate change' is happening.

Why? I don't know.

I am a concerned citizen of the planet Earth. Besides, it was high time Aussie volcanoes got a thread!

[aps1080]

"Besides, it was high time Aussie volcanoes got a thread!"

LOL

As long as we don't have a Krakatoa type eruption, I think we will survive.

After all, look what happened to Mt St Helens ?

The environment repairs itself after these type of activities.

[fourandsixpants]

Tertiary Tholeiite Magma in Western Australia. Theoleiite Basalts from Cape Gosselin, Western Australia. Paperback – 1936

by A B Edwards (Author)

I think Cape Gosselin is what/where we call Cape Leeuwin

Cape Leeuwin, which would be named after the vessel by Matthew Flinders on ... 1801), Nicolas Baudin 27th May 1801, who named Cape Leeuwin as Cape Gosselin, but it was not adopted.......

http://www.australiaforeveryone.com.au/discovery/dutch3.htm

[lionrose.7 · Accepted solution]

This is my local Volcano, 70% of it is under water

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

When Mt. St. Helens erupted, we sold a lot of air filters and wiper blades, even 300 miles south.

When Mt. Mazama blew its top, ash and debris landed as far away as Nebraska...........that's like Ayers rock erupting and ash falling in Tassie.

Even today, driving north on Hwy 238 west of Crater Lake, the road side is mostly pumice dust from that event.

Oddly enough, the next volcano north, Mt Thielsen looks nothing like a volcano, having been ravaged by glaciers.  It is about 25 miles north of Crater Lake.

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

Lionrose, when I was just a kid in OZ, there was an article about a NZ volcano erupting.........it scared the **bleep** out of me, and for days I kept looking for one to pop up in my back yard.

[fourandsixpants]

Volcanoes in Australia are the result of hotspot activity.
Most volcanoes are extinct, but there is a province in Victoria which is dormant, and may erupt in the future.

http://www.volcanolive.com/australia.html