A supervolcano located beneath the surface of Lake Taupo in the middle of New Zealand’s North Island. It first began erupting around 300,000 years ago and has rarely been quiet since.

Mr Scott said the behaviour of caldera volcanoes such as Taupo was generally more difficult to understand than cone volcanoes such as Ruapehu, Egmont/Taranaki, and White Island.

WELLINGTON, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The alert level at New Zealand's Taupo Volcano was raised to Level 1 for the first time on Tuesday. Although this is the first time the volcanic alert has been ...

One 2020 modelling study put the annual probability of a Taupo eruption at any size at a very low chance of one in 800 – or at between 0.5 and 1.3 per cent - within the next 500 years.

These could be related to the active faults in the zone and volcanic processes at the caldera volcanoes such as Taupō and Okataina. In the past 10 years, the agency had located more than 4200 ...