Cerro San Jacinto volcano
Stratovolcano 300 m / 984 ft
Nicaragua, 12.37°N / -86.02°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Nicaragua, 12.37°N / -86.02°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Cerro San Jacinto volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
Latest nearby earthquakes
| Time | Mag. / Depth | Distance/Location | ||
| Wed, 28 Jul 2021 (GMT) (1 earthquake) | ||||
| 2021-07-28 04:26:30 (28 Jul 2021 10:26:30 GMT) | 1.8 10 km | 33 km (21 mi) 14 km southwest of Boaco, Nicaragua | ||
| Tue, 27 Jul 2021 (GMT) (2 earthquakes) | ||||
| 2021-07-27 04:31:19 (27 Jul 2021 10:31:19 GMT) | 2.9 7 km | 35 km (22 mi) 15 km south of Boaco, Nicaragua | ||
| 2021-07-27 04:31:19 (27 Jul 2021 10:31:19 GMT) | 1.1 12 km | 33 km (21 mi) 12 Km Al Sureste De Teustepe, Nicaragua | ||
| Mon, 26 Jul 2021 (GMT) (1 earthquake) | ||||
| 2021-07-25 21:50:44 (26 Jul 2021 03:50:44 GMT) | 2.7 10 km | 46 km (29 mi) Departamento de Masaya, 17 km south of Managua, Nicaragua | ||
| Sat, 24 Jul 2021 (GMT) (1 earthquake) | ||||
| 2021-07-24 12:48:29 (24 Jul 2021 18:48:29 GMT) | 1.8 49 km | 39 km (24 mi) 7.7 km northwest of Managua, Nicaragua | ||
Background
Cerro San Jacinto, also known as Cerro San Jacinto Viejo, is a small stratovolcano constructed along the eastern margin of the Nicaraguan central graben east of Lake Managua. A large central depression is surrounded on the north and east by a horseshoe-shaped ridge, which is a remnant of a caldera rim. San Jacinto was considered to be of possible Holocene age on the basis of youthful morphology (McBirney and Williams, 1965). However, the volcano is highly dissected relative to the Holocene volcanoes across the Nicaraguan depression to the west. Van Wyk de Vries (1999 pers. comm.) noted that the volcano is substantially older than nearby Las Lajas volcano and is of probable early Pleistocene age.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information
See also: Sentinel hub | Landsat 8
