Malpaisillo volcano
Pyroclastic shield 181 m / 594 ft
Nicaragua, 12.58°N / -86.6°W
Current status: (probablemente) extinto (0 out of 5)
Nicaragua, 12.58°N / -86.6°W
Current status: (probablemente) extinto (0 out of 5)
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Erupciones del volcán Malpaisillo: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
Latest nearby earthquakes
| Fecha / Hora | Revista / Profundidad | Distancia | Ubicación | |
| Mon, 1 Mar 2021 (GMT) (1 terremoto) | ||||
| 28 feb 2021 19:57 (GMT -6) (1 Mar 2021 01:57:13 GMT) | 1.9 77 km - More | 17 km | 4 Km Al Oeste De Volcán Cerro Negro, Nicaragua | |
| Wed, 24 Feb 2021 (GMT) (1 terremoto) | ||||
| 24 feb 2021 10:40 (GMT -6) (24 Feb 2021 16:40:33 GMT) | 1.7 13 km - More | 38 km | 9 Km Al Norte De Volcán San Cristóbal, Nicaragua | |
| Tue, 23 Feb 2021 (GMT) (3 temblores) | ||||
| 23 feb 2021 15:40 (GMT -6) (23 Feb 2021 21:40:09 GMT) | 1.8 9 km - More | 40 km | 7 Km Al Norte De Volcán San Cristóbal, Nicaragua | |
| 23 feb 2021 15:36 (GMT -6) (23 Feb 2021 21:36:50 GMT) | 2.8 4 km - More | 41 km | 22 km al noreste de Chinandega, Nicaragua | |
| 23 feb 2021 15:36 (GMT -6) (23 Feb 2021 21:36:02 GMT) | 1.8 6 km - More | 40 km | 6 Km Al Norte De Volcán San Cristóbal, Nicaragua | |
Background
A large but topographically indistinct pyroclastic shield volcano lies in the Nicaraguan depression at Malpaisillo, NE of Las Pilas volcano and NNW of Momotombo volcano. The 10-km-wide Malpaisillo caldera, also known as Cerro el Chúcaro, forms a flat plain on the floor of the graben that contrasts dramatically with surrounding extensively dissected dacitic airfall and ignimbrite deposits. These deposits extend across the graben east of the Marrabios Range and reach into Lake Managua to the SE. They also crop out west and south of the Marrabios Range. A K-Ar age of 0.46 million years was obtained from the Malpaisillo deposit.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information
See also: Sentinel hub | Landsat 8
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