Cerro Santiago volcano
Updated: Jun 9, 2023 03:41 GMT -
Volcanic field 1192 m / 3,911 ft
Guatemala, 14.33°N / -89.87°W
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Guatemala, 14.33°N / -89.87°W
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
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Cerro Santiago volcano eruptions: unknown, no recent eruptions
Latest nearby earthquakes
Time | Mag. / Depth | Distance/Location | ||
Thursday, June 8, 2023 GMT (2 quakes) | ||||
Jun 8, 2023 9:51 am (GMT -6) (Jun 8, 2023 15:51 GMT) | 1.6 8 km | 26 km (16 mi) Guatemala: 20 Km Al Norte De Ahuachapan, El Salvador | ||
Jun 8, 2023 9:43 am (GMT -6) (Jun 8, 2023 15:43 GMT) | 2.3 7 km | 26 km (16 mi) 24 km southeast of Jutiapa, Departamento de Jutiapa, Guatemala |
Background
A cluster of cinder cones and low shield volcanoes surrounds the city of Jutiapa in SE Guatemala. The most prominent feature is Cerro Santiago, one of two coalescing cinder cones capping a low shield volcano SE of Jutiapa. Youthful flows from the twin Los Cerritos cones NE of Jutiapa cross the Interamerican highway. Volcán Culma forms a steep-sided basaltic lava mound immediately east of the city. To the west lies Cerro Gordo (referred to by Williams et al., 1964 as Volcano Amayo), a craterless cinder cone surrounded by basaltic lava flows. It is one of several cinder cones to have produced lava flows that blanket the landscape between Jutiapa and Tertiary volcanic hills to the south.---
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