Fogo Volcano
Updated: 18 abr. 2024 06:30 GMT -
Stratovolcano 2829 m / 9,281 ft
Cape Verde, 14.95°N / -24.35°W
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Cape Verde, 14.95°N / -24.35°W
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Last update: 17 dic 2021 (Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report)
The island of Fogo consists of a single massive stratovolcano that is the most prominent of the Cape Verde Islands. Fogo is the most active volcano in the Cape Verde.
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Erupciones del volcán Fogo: 2014-15, 1995, 1951
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Background
The roughly circular 25-km-wide island is truncated by a large 9-km-wide caldera that is breached to the east and has a headwall 1 km high. The caldera is located asymmetrically NE of the center of the island and was formed as a result of massive lateral collapse of the ancestral Monte Armarelo edifice. A very youthful steep-sided central cone, Pico, rises more than 1 km above the caldera floor to about 100 m above the caldera rim, forming the 2829 m high point of the island. Pico, which is capped by a 500-m-wide, 150-m-deep summit crater, was apparently in almost continuous activity from the time of Portuguese settlement in 1500 AD until around 1760. Later historical lava flows, some from vents on the caldera floor, reached the eastern coast below the breached caldera.---
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Fogo Volcano Photos
Volcán Fogo (Cabo Verde)
Erupción 2014-2015 (23 de noviembre de 2014 al 08 de febrero de 2015). Imagen tomada el 4 de diciembre a las 19h 20m hora local. 14 56 35 no...
Erupción 2014-2015 (23 de noviembre de 2014 al 08 de febrero de 2015). Imagen tomada el 4 de diciembre a las 19h 20m hora local. 14 56 35 no...
Volcán Fogo (Cabo Verde)
Erupción 2014-2015 (23 de noviembre de 2014 al 8 de febrero de 2015). Imagen tomada el 5 de diciembre, 19h 40m hora local. 14º56'35" N, 24º2...
Erupción 2014-2015 (23 de noviembre de 2014 al 8 de febrero de 2015). Imagen tomada el 5 de diciembre, 19h 40m hora local. 14º56'35" N, 24º2...
Explosión de burbuja de lava, erupción del volcán Fogo, noviembre-diciembre de 2014 (Photo: Martin Rietze)
Explosión de burbuja de lava, erupción del volcán Fogo, noviembre-diciembre de 2014 (Photo: Martin Rietze)
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