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Latest news from Chaitén volcano:Thursday, Nov 12, 2009
Chaitén's lava dome continues its growth and can shed pyroclastic flows and produce ash eruptions at all times. The alert level remains at its highest (red).
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Tuesday, Mar 10, 2009
On 24 February it was reported that a partial dome collapse of Chaitén's Domo Nuevo 1 lava-dome complex a large amount of material accumulated in the basal ring depression surrounding the dome complex and throughout the Blanco River valley. Steam plumes with little ash content and explosions were noted. ...
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Chaitén volcanoCaldera, lava dome 1122 m
Southern Chile and Argentina, South America, -42.83°S / -72.65°W Current status: restless (2 out of 5) Chaitén webcams / live data [hide map] [enlarge map]
Last update: 18 Dec 2012
Typical eruption style: Explosive, lava dome growth Chaitén volcano eruptions: 2 May 2008 (plinian eruption) - 2011  Chaitén Volcano Photos Last earthquakes nearby:
 Background:Chaitén is a small, glacier-free late-Pleistocene caldera with a Holocene lava dome located 10 km NE of the town of Chaitén on the Gulf of Corcovado. The north side of the rhyolitic, 962-m-high obsidian lava dome occupying the 3.5-km-wide caldera is unvegetated. Obsidian cobbles from this dome found in the Blanco River are the source of prehistorical artifacts from archaeological sites along the Pacific coast as far as 400 km away from the volcano to the north and south. The caldera is breached on the SW side by a river that drains to the bay of Chaitén, and the high point on its southern rim reaches 1,122 m. Two small lakes occupy the caldera floor on the west and north sides of the lava dome. Moreno (1985 pers. comm.) noted that the nearby volcano of Yelcho listed by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (1973) does not exist.--- Source: Global Volcanism Program at www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm Chaitén Photos:
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