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Cerro Gavilantepeque volcano

Updated: Aug 16, 2022 04:00 GMT - Refresh

Shield 1280 m / 4199 ft
Honduras, 14°N / -87.18°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Cerro Gavilantepeque volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
Lastest nearby earthquakes:

Time	Mag. / Depth	Distance/Location
Saturday, August 13, 2022 GMT (1 quake)
Aug 13, 2022 2:00 pm (GMT -6) (Aug 13, 2022 20:00 GMT)	2.8 5 km	95 km (59 mi) 35 km southeast of Danli, Departamento de El Paraiso, Honduras

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Background

Cerro Gavilantepeque is a small Quaternary basaltic shield volcano located about 10 km SSE of Tegucigalpa. Small remnants of lava flows cap adjacent mesas.
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information

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