El Pedregal volcano
Updated: Aug 17, 2022 22:29 GMT - Refresh
Shield 1593 m / 5226 ft
Honduras, 14.1°N / -87.27°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Honduras, 14.1°N / -87.27°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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El Pedregal 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 | 107 km (66 mi) 35 km southeast of Danli, Departamento de El Paraiso, Honduras | ||
Background
El Pedregal, the most prominent Quaternary volcano in the highlands of central Honduras, is a low-angle basaltic shield volcano constructed on a high plateau of Miocene ignimbrites immediately west of the capital city of Tegucigalpa. A small ephemeral pond occupies a saucer-shaped summit depression. Isolated remnants of basaltic lava flows from El Pedregal and separate vents occur over broad areas primarily to the west, but NW nearly to the village of Zambrano. A small cone near Matasano produced reddish scoria during the only pyroclastic eruption in the Quaternary volcanic fields near Tegucigalpa.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information
See also: Sentinel hub | Landsat 8 | NASA FIRMS
