# Katla

- **Country:** Iceland
- **Coordinates:** 63.633333, -19.050000
- **Text:** Selected geological features near the Katla central volcano and its Eldgjá fissure swarm (red outlines).
- **Type:** Subglacial volcano
- **Listing:** List of volcanoes in Iceland
- **Location:** Iceland
- **Image Map:** {{maplink|frame=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=286|frame-height=250|frame-long=-18.98|frame-lat=63.9|zoom=7|raw=[,,,,,,]
- **Elevation M:** 1512
- **Last Eruption:** October 12, 1918 (Major)July 17, 1999 (Minor)
- **Label Position:** right

The caldera of the Katla volcano has a diameter of and is covered with of ice. The volcano normally erupts every 40–80 years. The flood discharge at the peak of an eruption in 1755 has been estimated at 200,000–400,000 m3/s (7.1–14.1 million cu ft/sec), comparable to the combined average discharge of the Amazon, Mississippi, Nile, and Yangtze rivers (about 266,000 m3/s (9.4 million cu ft/sec)).

![Photo of Katla](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Katla_1918.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katla_(volcano) (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)