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Sacabaya Volcano

Updated: 29 mar. 2024 10:57 GMT -
pyroclastic shield 4215 m / 13,829 feet
Cile settentrionale, Bolivia e Argentina (Sud America), -18.62°S / -68.75°W
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Last update: 4 giu 2016

Volcán Sacabaya (also known as Tambo Quemado or Cerro Quemado) is a low pyroclastic shield near the Rio Lauca on the Bolivian Altiplano 26 km from the border with Chile.
It is not known when it last erupted, but its very fresh morphology suggests a young (Holocene) age and there is fumarolic activity.

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Typical eruption style: effusive and strombolian
Eruzioni del vulcano Sacabaya: probably within the past 10,000 years

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Background

from Smithsonian / GVP Tambo Quemado volcano information:
Tambo Quemado consists of a broad ignimbrite shield capped by an elongated NNE-SSW-trending vent area about 2 x 3.5 km in diameter formed by 3 large overlapping craters. The youngest crater lies at the southern end of the 4215-m-high summit region and contains a blocky lava dome. Wind has redistributed tephra deposits to the east and south, forming sand dunes.

Latest satellite images

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Thu, 11 Sep 2014, 18:39

Sabancaya volcano (Peru): possible small eruption today

A pilot reported seeing an ash plume at flight level 170 (17,000 ft, 5 km) altitude today, but there are no other indications that an eruption took place and it could be a false eruption report as weather clouds can sometime easily be mistaken by ash plumes. ... Read all

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