Fogo Volcano
Updated: 19. Apr. 2024 23:34 GMT -
Stratovolcano 2829 m / 9,281 ft
Cape Verde, 14.95°N / -24.35°W
Aktueller Status: normal / ruhend (1 von 5)
Cape Verde, 14.95°N / -24.35°W
Aktueller Status: normal / ruhend (1 von 5)
Last update: 17 Dez 2021 (Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report)
The island of Fogo consists of a single massive stratovolcano that is the most prominent of the Cape Verde Islands. Fogo is the most active volcano in the Cape Verde.
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Ausbrüche des Fogo: 2014-15, 1995, 1951
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Beschreibung
The roughly circular 25-km-wide island is truncated by a large 9-km-wide caldera that is breached to the east and has a headwall 1 km high. The caldera is located asymmetrically NE of the center of the island and was formed as a result of massive lateral collapse of the ancestral Monte Armarelo edifice. A very youthful steep-sided central cone, Pico, rises more than 1 km above the caldera floor to about 100 m above the caldera rim, forming the 2829 m high point of the island. Pico, which is capped by a 500-m-wide, 150-m-deep summit crater, was apparently in almost continuous activity from the time of Portuguese settlement in 1500 AD until around 1760. Later historical lava flows, some from vents on the caldera floor, reached the eastern coast below the breached caldera.---
Smithsonian / GVP volcano information
Fogo Volcano Photos
Vulkan Fogo (Kap Verde)
Ausbruch 2014–2015 (23. November 2014 bis 8. Februar 2015). Bild aufgenommen am 4. Dezember, 19:20 Uhr Ortszeit. 14 56 35 N, 24 21 20 W.
Ausbruch 2014–2015 (23. November 2014 bis 8. Februar 2015). Bild aufgenommen am 4. Dezember, 19:20 Uhr Ortszeit. 14 56 35 N, 24 21 20 W.
Vulkan Fogo (Kap Verde)
Ausbruch 2014–2015 (23. November 2014 bis 8. Februar 2015). Bild aufgenommen am 5. Dezember, 19:40 Uhr Ortszeit. 14º56'35" N, 24º21'20" W. (P...
Ausbruch 2014–2015 (23. November 2014 bis 8. Februar 2015). Bild aufgenommen am 5. Dezember, 19:40 Uhr Ortszeit. 14º56'35" N, 24º21'20" W. (P...
Platzende Lavablase, Ausbruch des Fogo-Vulkans, November-Dezember 2014 (Photo: Martin Rietze)
Platzende Lavablase, Ausbruch des Fogo-Vulkans, November-Dezember 2014 (Photo: Martin Rietze)