Volcanoes on Lanzarote: extinct or not?

Question

are the volcanoes on this island extinct or dormant? if so how regulary do they erupt?? please i really need to know?!!!

Answer 1

Lanzarote’s 300 volcanoes are extinct but you can see their presence everywhere: mountains, craters, lava flows – the landscapes of Lanzarote are dramatic and fascinating.

Volcanoes are found in three states - extinct, dormant and active. An extinct volcano will never erupt again. A dormant volcano has not erupted in 2000 years. An active volcano has erupted recently and is likely to erupt again.

Answer 2

they are dormant which means they never erupt!! extinct is not a term u would use to describe volcanoes as this means the dont exist !! which we all know they do.....dormant is the term!!!

Answer 3

nope

Answer 4

The status shown for the Lanzarote volcanoes is "Historical", however, the last eruption was in 1824, which should classify them as dormant.

The 60-km-long island of Lanzarote at the NE end of the Canary Islands contains the largest concentration of youthful volcanism in the Canaries. Pleistocene-and-Holocene cinder cones and lava flows erupted along NE-SW-trending fissures are found throughout the low-altitude arid island and on smaller islands to the north. The largest historical eruption of the Canary Islands took place during 1730-36, when long-term eruptions from a NE-SW-trending fissure formed the Montañas del Fuego and produced voluminous lava flows that covered about 200 sq km. The lava flows reached the western coast along a broad, 20-km-wide front. The villages of Maretas and Santa Catalina were destroyed, along with the most fertile valleys and estates of the arid island. An eruption during 1824 produced a much smaller lava flow that reached the SW coast.

Answer 5

The volcanoes on Lanzarote are dormant. The last eruption was in 1824. Nobody knows if or when it will happen again.