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Volcán Masaya

Masaya

Caldera · Nicaragua · 594 m

Masaya is one of Nicaragua's most unusual and most active volcanoes. It is a broad, 6 x 11 km basaltic caldera with steep-sided walls up to 300-m high. The caldera is filled on its NW end by more than a dozen vents erupted along a circular, 4-km-diameter fracture system. The twin volcanoes of Nindirí and Masaya are seen here from the east caldera rim above Lake Masaya. Masaya has been frequently active since the time of the Spanish Conquistadors, when an active lava lake prompted several attempts to extract the volcano's molten "gold."
Masaya is one of Nicaragua's most unusual and most active volcanoes. It is a broad, 6 x 11 km basaltic caldera with steep-sided walls up to 300-m high. The caldera is filled on its NW end by more than a dozen vents erupted along a circular, 4-km-diameter fracture system. The twin volcanoes of Nindirí and Masaya are seen here from the east caldera rim above Lake Masaya. Masaya has been frequently active since the time of the Spanish Conquistadors, when an active lava lake prompted several attempts to extract the volcano's molten "gold." · Foto: Photo by Jaime Incer. · Wikimedia Commons
Tipo
Caldera
País
Nicaragua
Región
Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions / Central America Volcanic Arc
Altitud
594 m
Coordenadas
11.984, -86.169
Última erupción
2026
Contexto tectónico
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Forma volcánica
Caldera
Roca principal
Basalt / Picro-Basalt
Resumen geológico

Masaya volcano in Nicaragua has erupted frequently since the time of the Spanish Conquistadors, when an active lava lake prompted attempts to extract the volcano's molten "gold" until it was found to be basalt rock upon cooling. It lies within the massive Pleistocene Las Sierras caldera and is itself a broad, 6 x 11 km basaltic caldera with steep-sided walls up to 300 m high. The caldera is filled on its NW end by more than a dozen vents that erupted along a circular, 4-km-diameter fracture system. The Nindirí and Masaya cones, the source of observed eruptions, were constructed at the southern end of the fracture system and contain multiple summit craters, including the currently active Santiago crater. A major basaltic Plinian tephra erupted from Masaya about 6,500 years ago. Recent lava flows cover much of the caldera floor and there is a lake at the far eastern end. A lava flow from the 1670 eruption overtopped the north caldera rim. Periods of long-term vigorous gas emission at roughly quarter-century intervals have caused health hazards and crop damage.

Resumen de Wikipedia

El volcán Masaya, también conocido históricamente como Popogatepe en el idioma náhuat, está ubicado cerca de la ciudad de Masaya en el departamento de Masaya, en Nicaragua a escasos 22 km al sur de la capital del país, Managua.

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Historial de erupciones

Resumen (VEI en el tiempo)
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4050 BCE~3848 BCE · 1 erupciones · VEI máx. 6209 BCE~7 BCE · 1 erupciones · VEI máx. 57 BCE~196 · 1 erupciones · VEI máx. 51409~1611 · 3 erupciones · VEI máx. 01611~1813 · 3 erupciones · VEI máx. 31813~2015 · 31 erupciones · VEI máx. 24050 BCE2635 BCE1017 BCE3981813

Línea de tiempo detallada

  1. 2015VEI 1Observado
    2015-10-03 – 2026-03-31
    Santiago crater
  2. 2013VEI 0Observado
    2013-04-11 – 2013-04-26
  3. 2012VEI 1Observado
    2012-04-30 – 2012-06-08
    Santiago Crater
  4. 2008VEI 1Observado
    2008-04-29 – 2008-12-17
    Santiago
  5. 2006VEI 1Observado
    2006-08-04 – 2006-10-25
    Santiago
  6. 2005VEI 1Observado
    2005-03-04 – 2005-03-30
    Santiago
  7. 2004VEI 1Estimación geológica
    2004-07-04 – 2004-07-04
    Santiago
  8. 2003VEI 1Observado
    2003-09-22 – 2003-12-12
    Santiago
  9. 2001VEI 1Observado
    2001-04-23 – 2001-04-25
    Santiago
  10. 1999VEI 1Observado
    1999-11-22 – 2000-03-02
    Santiago
  11. 1998VEI 1Observado
    1998-09-14 – 1998-09-14
    Santiago
  12. 1997VEI 1Observado
    1997-06-03 – 1997-11-17
    Santiago
  13. 1996VEI 1Observado
    1996-12-05 – 1996-12-05
    Santiago
  14. 1993VEI 1Observado
    1993-06-16 – 1994-11-16
    Santiago
  15. 1989VEI 1Observado
    1989-02-20 – 1989-11-16
    Santiago
  16. 1987VEI 1Observado
    1987-02-15 – 1987-02-22
    Santiago
  17. 1965VEI 1Observado
    1965-10-10 – 1985-04-16
    Santiago
  18. 1948VEI 1Observado
    1948-09 – 1948-09
    Santiago
  19. 1946VEI 1Observado
    1946-06 – 1947-12
    Santiago
  20. 1925VEI 2Observado
    1925-04 – En curso
    Santiago
  21. 1919VEI 2Observado
    1919 – 1924
    Santiago
  22. 1918VEI 1Observado
    1918-01 – En curso
    Santiago
  23. 1913VEI 1Observado
    1913-07-12 – En curso
    Santiago
  24. 1906VEI 2Observado
    1906-01-02 – 1906-01-09
    Santiago and upper NE flank near El Pelón
  25. 1904VEI 2Observado
    1904-05 – 1904-06
    Santiago
  26. 1902VEI 2Observado
    1902-07-15 – 1903-11
    Santiago
  27. 1858VEI ?Estimación geológica
    1858-04 – En curso
  28. 1858VEI 2Observado
    1858-11-10 – 1859-03-27
    Santiago, San Pedro
  29. 1856VEI 2Observado
    1856-12 – 1857-01
    Santiago or San Pedro
  30. 1853VEI 1Observado
    1853-04-09 – 1853-09-15
    Santiago
  31. 1852VEI 2Observado
    1852-06 – 1852-07
    Between Masaya and Nindirí Craters
  32. 1772VEI 2Observado
    1772-03-16 – 1772-03-25
    North side of Old Masaya Crater
  33. 1670VEI 3Observado
    1670 – En curso
    Nindirí
  34. 1613VEI 0Estimación geológica
    1613 – En curso
    Nindirí
  35. 1570VEI 0Observado
    1570 – 1586
    Nindirí
  36. 1551VEI 0Observado
    1551 – En curso
    Nindirí
  37. 1524VEI 0Observado
    1524 – 1544
    Nindirí
  38. 150VEI 5Estimación geológica
    150 – En curso
  39. 170 a. C. (±100 años)VEI 5Estimación geológica
    BCE 170 – En curso
  40. 4050 a. C.VEI 6Estimación geológica
    BCE 4050 – En curso
    NW of caldera

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