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The Central American Volcanic Arc (often abbreviated to CAVA) is a chain of volcanoes which extends parallel to the Pacific coastline of the Central American Isthmus, from Mexico to Panama. This volcanic arc, which has a length of 1,100 kilometers (680 mi) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is formed by an active subduction zone, with the Cocos plate subducting ...
Coatepeque Caldera (Nawat: cōātepēc, "at the snake hill") is a volcanic caldera in El Salvador in Central America.The caldera was formed during a series of rhyolitic explosive eruptions from a group of stratovolcanoes between about 72,000 and 57,000 years ago.
Its last known eruption was registered in 1986 — a small phreatic eruption in May — but it is still considered as dangerous to more than 250,000 people residing in the area. Map of the Central America volcanic arc, with captions showing the location of several volcanoes.
When was its last major eruption? The volcano was inactive for decades before an eruption in 1994. In 2000, a major eruption prompted the evacuation of about 50,000 people in the region.
Central America Volcanic Arc, Guatemala 300 84 Los Chocoyos eruption 6 Kuttara Hokkaidō: 16.8 DRE 84 Kt-6 6 Kussharo Hokkaidō: 25 85 Kp-2/3 6 Kuttara Hokkaidō: 10.8 DRE 84 - 87 Kt-7 7-8 Mount Aso: Kyūshū: 930 - 1,860 [2] 87 Aso-4 Ignimbrite 6 Kuttara Hokkaidō: 9.9 DRE 87 - 106 Kt-8
The largest eruption for several years occurred on May 24, 2005. An ash cloud rose to more than 3 km over the volcano and satellite monitoring indicated that the cloud spread over an area extending 110 nautical miles (200 km) west of the volcano in the hours after the eruption. [8]
Known as a super eruption for its magnitude, the event emptied out enough volcanic material to produce the 30-by-40-mile-wide caldera. The National Park Service said the eruption covered an area ...
The island is a conical basaltic stratovolcano and the southernmost volcano in Honduras. It belongs to Valle department . Together with Isla Zacate Grande , Isla Comandante and a few tiny satellite islets and rocks, it forms the municipality of Amapala , with an area of 75.2 km 2 (29.0 sq mi) and a population of 9,687 as of the census of 2001 ...