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Current seismic signal San Salvador (GRDA station, SNET)
mercredi, janv. 23, 2013
Small volcanic quakes and weak tremor are visible at the seismogram, but within normal levels for this active volcano. [details]
jeudi, mars 22, 2012
Le tremblement de terre Mexicain de magnitude 7.4 près d'Acapulco ce mardi pourrait avoir affecté le volcan San Salvador actuellement en sommeil à la distance de 1000 km et avoir déclenché un essaim de tremblement de terre sous le volcan. ... [details]

San Salvador volcan

stratovolcan 1893 m / 6,211 ft
El Salvador, 13.73°N / -89.29°W
Condition actuelle: en sommeil (1 sur 5)
San Salvador webcams / live data
Dernière mise à jour: 23 janv. 2013
Style éruptif tipique: effusive flank fissure eruptions
Eruptions du volcan San Salvador: 1917, 1806 (?), 1671, 1658, 1572 ± 2, ?1200, 640 AD ± 30 years
Derniers séismes proches:
TimeMag. / DepthDistanceLocation
Thu, 11 Apr
Thu, 11 Apr 23:58 UTCM 4.2 / 10 km12 kmNicaragua
San Salvador volcano is a massive stratovolcano immediately northwestwest of El Salvador city. Its modern summit cone is also called the Boqueron stratovolcano. It formed within a 6 km wide caldera left by the collapse of the predecessor volcano about 40,000 years ago. Remnants of the caldera rim form the Picacho and Jabalí peaks.
Boqueron volcano is truncated by a steep-walled, 500 m deep and 1500 m wide summit crater, which formed during a large eruption about 800 years ago. Before the last eruption in 1917, the crater of Boqueron contained a 400 m wide lake, which was replaced by a small, 30 m high young cinder cone, called Boqueroncito, built during the eruption along with a major lava flow on the north flank.
Most historical eruptions from San Salvador originated from flank vents.

Introduction:

The San Salvador or Quezaltepeque volcanic center formed in the southern part of the main graben of El Salvador and is dominantly andesitic. 3 fracture zones that extend beyond the base of San Salvador volcano have been the locus for numerous flank eruptions, including 2 that formed maars on the WNW and SE sides.
Most of the 4 historical eruptions recorded since the 16th century have originated from flank vents, including two eruptions in the 17th century from the NW-flank cone of El Playón, during which explosions and a lava flow damaged inhabited areas.

1999 unrest
A small seismic swarm occurred in August 1999, when volcano-tectonic earthquakes about 5 km from the crater were detected. No other signs of unrest were noted.

1917 eruption
The last eruption of San Salvador volcano began on 6 June 1917 following strong and destructive earthquakes lasting for 2 hours. The eruption consisted of an effusive fissure eruption on the NW flank followed by a moderately explosive summit eruption (similar, but smaller in scale, to the Eyafjallajökull eruption in 2010).
The effusive phase produced a large aa lava flow on the NW flank, left a row of cinder cones on the eruptive fissure, and lasted about a week. The second phase started simultaneously with the waning of the waning of the first phase from a fissure vent inside the summit crater. It quickly evaporated a former 400 m wide lake and built the small Boqueroncito cinder cone. ...plus
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