Nevado de los Piuquenes volcano

Updated: Aug 12, 2022 18:37 GMT - Refresh

Stratovolcano 6019 m / 19747 ft
Central Chile / Argentina border, -33.52°S / -69.83°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Nevado de los Piuquenes volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
Lastest nearby earthquakes:

Time	Mag. / Depth	Distance/Location
Monday, August 1, 2022 GMT (1 quake)
Aug 1, 2022 5:03 am (GMT -3) (Aug 1, 2022 08:03 GMT)	3.0 12 km	16 km (9.9 mi) 77 km east of Puente Alto, Provincia de Cordillera, Santiago, Chile

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Background

The Pleistocene volcano Nevado de los Piuquenes is the southernmost volcano of the Tunpungato-Tupungatito volcano group. A 5.5-km-wide amphitheater is open to the east (Moreno and Naranjo 1991).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information

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