Vent Fields
Welcome to the InterRidge Global Database of Active Submarine Hydrothermal Vent Fields (the “InterRidge Vents Database”).
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To view the subset of Vent Fields that contain a specific category, click on the category (for example, "active, confirmed" in the "Activity" column).
| Vent Field Name ID | Activity | Tectonic Setting | Region | Latitude | Longitude |
Maximum or Single Reported Depth |
Year and How Discovered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conical Seamount | inactive | arc volcano | Tabar-Feni Arc | -3.2500 | 152.6600 | 1050 | 1998 TV grab survey determined inactive |
| Tonga Arc, Volcano C | active, inferred | arc volcano | Tonga Arc | -20.1800 | -175.2000 | 1050 | 2004 SS11/2004 cruise did not detect hydrothermal activity |
| Hook Ridge | active, confirmed | back-arc spreading center | Bransfield Strait | -62.1940 | -57.2745 | 1080 | 1997 hot sediment; 1995 plume only; 1999 even hotter sediment |
| EPR, Seamount 5 | active, inferred | mid-ocean ridge | N EPR | 13.0000 | -103.5000 | 1100 | 1988 or earlier camera and/or submersible (need to check reference) |
| North Knoll, Iheya Ridge | active, confirmed | back-arc spreading center | Okinawa Trough | 27.7908 | 126.8966 | 1100 | 1995 deep tow survey |
| Fukujin volcano | active, inferred | arc volcano | Mariana Arc | 21.9300 | 143.4700 | 1100 | 1987 deposits only |
| Kibblewhite | active, inferred | arc volcano | Kermadec Arc | -34.5750 | 179.2550 | 1106 | 2002 plume only |
| Myojinsho Caldera | active, inferred | arc volcano | Izu-Bonin Arc | 31.8833 | 139.9500 | 1110 | 1988 deposits only; 2005 plume only |
| Sonne | active, inferred | arc volcano | Kermadec Arc | -34.0580 | 179.5890 | 1127 | 2002 plume only |
| Kasuga 3 Seamount | active, confirmed | arc volcano | Mariana Arc | 21.3833 | 143.6000 | 1140 | 1987 submersible Alvin |
| West Rota volcano | active, confirmed | arc volcano | Mariana Arc | 14.3250 | 144.8330 | 1150 | 2005 ROV Hyper-Dolphin; 2003 plume only; 2004 ROV ROPOS did not observe venting |
| Monowai Caldera | active, confirmed | arc volcano | Tonga Arc | -25.8000 | -177.1500 | 1165 | 2005 with submersibles PISCES IV and PISCES V and ROV RCV-150; 2004 plume only |
| Haungaroa | active, inferred | arc volcano | Kermadec Arc | -32.6060 | -179.6090 | 1165 | 2002 plume only |
| Wright volcanic center | active, confirmed | arc volcano | Kermadec Arc | -31.8500 | -179.1880 | 1165 | 2005 submersible PISCES V; 2004 plume NZAPLUME III cruise |
| Dugong submarine volcano | active, inferred | back-arc spreading center | Lau Basin | -15.4500 | -175.7000 | 1170 | 2008 plume only |
| Niua South | active, confirmed | arc volcano | Tonga Arc | -15.1650 | -173.5700 | 1180 | 2008 commercial ROV |
| New World Seamount | active, inferred | arc volcano | Tabar-Feni Arc | -2.8333 | 152.5333 | 1200 | 2000 or earlier (cruise FR04/00 implies that they already suspected hydrothermal activity); 1994 seamount discovered |
| Rakahore volcanic center | active, inferred | arc volcano | Kermadec Arc | -26.8100 | -177.4000 | 1200 | 2004 plume and dredging NZAPLUME III expedition |
| Sisifo | active, inferred | arc volcano | Aeolian Arc, Tyrrhenian Sea | 38.7833 | 13.8666 | 1200 | 2007 plume only |
| Kueishan Island, offshore | active, confirmed | back-arc spreading center | Okinawa Trough | 24.8333 | 122.0000 | 1200 | 2008 or earlier |
| Kolbeinsey Ridge, 69 N | active, inferred | mid-ocean ridge | Kolbeinsey Ridge | 68.7581 | -16.0000 | 1200 | 1980 or earlier sediments only |
| Mokuyo Seamount | active, confirmed | arc volcano | Izu-Bonin Arc | 28.3200 | 140.5800 | 1200 | 1990 submersible Shinkai 2000 |
| Starfish Seamount, Tinakula | active, confirmed | back-arc spreading center | New Hebrides back-arc | -12.2028 | 167.6139 | 1204 | 2011 commercial ROV; 1989 plume only; 1989 towed camera survey did not confirm activity; 2002 plume and dredge only |
| Tangyin | active, inferred | back-arc spreading center | Okinawa Trough | 25.0667 | 122.5667 | 1206 | 2014 likely by dredging or ROV during the HOBAB3 cruise on R/V Kexue |
| West Mata submarine volcano | active, confirmed | arc volcano | Tonga Arc | -15.0950 | -173.7500 | 1208 | 2009 ROV Jason II; 2008 eruption plume detected |
| Higashi-Ensei | active, confirmed | back-arc spreading center | Okinawa Trough | 28.4393 | 128.1724 | 1220 | 2016 ROV Kaiko dives 723 and 724 |
| Futagoyama | active, confirmed | back-arc spreading center | Okinawa Trough | 24.8674 | 123.3081 | 1270 | 2016 ROV Kaiko dive 717 |
| Solwara 18 | active, inferred | back-arc spreading center | Manus Basin | -3.0760 | 147.2390 | 1308 | 2008 plumes with some sites subsequently observed with ROV; 2009 commercial ROV Fugro FV300 (activity not confirmed) |
| MTJ, V12A-04 | active, inferred | back-arc spreading center | Lau Basin | -15.9540 | -174.7110 | 1330 | 2012 plume only |
| East Mata submarine volcano | active, inferred | arc volcano | Tonga Arc | -15.1010 | -173.6780 | 1350 | 2008 plume only; 2009 plume only |