Cerro de Rio Negro volcano

Stratovolcano 5067 m / 16624 ft
Northern Chile, -23.4°S / -67.58°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

Show interactive Map

[hide map] [enlarge]

Typical eruption style: unspecified
Cerro de Rio Negro volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)

Latest nearby earthquakes

No recent earthquakes

Time

Mag. / Depth

Distance/Location

View recent quakes

Background

Complex stratovolcano north of the Salar de Aguas Calientes; no evidence for Holocene activity (de Silva and Francis 1991).
---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information

Latest satellite images

More on VolcanoDiscovery

Eruption Specials

Tours to erupting volcanoes
From time to time, we organize special tours to see volcanoes in eruption. These are often announced only few days or weeks in advance. Find out more!

Countries / regions

Photos by country or region
Browse through our photo galleries sorted by country or region name.

Katla Earthquakes

Latest quakes at Katla volcano
One of Iceland's most active and dangerous volcanoes is showing signs of unrest and statistically due for a new eruption. Earthquakes could give a clue.

Past Quakes

Earthquake Archive
Look up any earthquake anywhere from 2010

Volcanic features

A selection of photos of different features: lava flows, lava fountains, lava lakes, fumaroles and more.

Why is there advertising on this site?

Support us - Help us upgrade our services!

We truly love working to bring you the latest volcano and earthquake data from around the world. Maintaining our website and our free apps does require, however, considerable time and resources.
We need financing to increase hard- and software capacity as well as support our editor team. We're aiming to achieve uninterrupted service wherever an earthquake or volcano eruption unfolds, and your donations can make it happen! Every donation will be highly appreciated. If you find the information useful and would like to support our team in integrating further features, write great content, and in upgrading our soft- and hardware, please make a donation (PayPal or Online credit card payment).

Planned features:

Weather reports
Tsunami alerts
Design upgrades
Faster responsiveness

Thanks to your past donations, these features have been added recently:

Earthquake archive from 1900 onwards
Additional seismic data sources
Improved content in English

Download and Upgrade the Volcanoes & Earthquakes app to get one of the fastest seismic and volcano alerts online:
Android | IOS

Thank you!

Copyrights: VolcanoDiscovery and other sources as noted.
Use of material: Most texts and images, in particular photographs, on this website are protected by copyright. Further reproduction and use of without authorization is usually not consented. If you are not sure or need licensing rights for photographs, for example for publications and commercial use, please contact us.

Home | Travel | Destinations | Volcanoes | Photos | Earthquakes | About | Glossary | News | Contact | Privacy | Imprint || Français | Deutsch

Follow us: