Piedra Grande Volcano

Updated: Oct 12, 2024 08:55 GMT - refresh

Stratovolcano(es) 1640 m / 5381 ft
Guatemala, 14.25°N / -90.4°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Piedra Grande volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)

Latest nearby earthquakes

Time	Mag. / Depth	Distance / Location
Oct 9, 01:02 pm (Guatemala)	2.4 7 km	29 km (18 mi) to the NW	16 Km al sur de Guatemala, Guatemala	Info
Monday, October 7, 2024 GMT (1 quake)
Oct 7, 05:09 am (Guatemala)	2.3 71 km	17 km (10.8 mi) to the SE	13 Km al sur de Cuilapa, Guatemala	Info
Monday, September 30, 2024 GMT (1 quake)
Sep 30, 07:21 am (Guatemala)	2.8 3 km	23 km (14 mi) to the E	12 Km al noreste de Cuilapa, Guatemala	Info
Saturday, September 28, 2024 GMT (1 quake)
Sep 28, 06:14 am (Guatemala)	2.7 1 km	29 km (18 mi) to the SE	22 Km al sureste de Cuilapa, Guatemala	Info

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Background

A cluster of faulted, heavily eroded andesitic stratovolcanoes is located in the Tecuamburro graben, between the Jalpatagua fault and Tecuamburro volcano. The vent area of Piedra Grande, on the north, lies with 4-km-wide, nested depressions open to the east. Much of the upper part of the andesitic volcano is extensively hydrothermally altered, and a fumarole is present. To the south is El Sordo, a basaltic-andesite stratovolcano with a smaller depression breached to the ESE. One lava flow has a Potassium-Argon age of 1.180 +/- 0.080 million years (Ma). To the south the Piedra Grande complex interfingers with El Sordo, an eroded and faulted basaltic cone. To the SW is Los Sitios, a sequence of interfingering andesitic lava flows from two eroded and faulted scoria and cinder cones. One flow has a Potassium-Argon age of 0.800 +/- 0.061 Ma.
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information