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Image of the rhyolitic lava dome of Chaitén Volcano during its 2008–2010 eruption. Chaitén is a volcanic caldera 3 kilometres (2 mi) in diameter, 17 kilometres (11 mi) west of the elongated ice-capped Michinmahuida volcano and 10 kilometres (6 mi) northeast of the town of Chaitén, near the Gulf of Corcovado in southern Chile. The most ...
The country's National Geology and Mining Service lists 90 active volcanoes. [2] The volcanoes of the Andes originate from the subduction of the Nazca Plate under the South American Plate, while the volcanoes of Chile's Pacific islands formed from magma coming from three distinct hotspots, Easter, Juan Fernández and San Felix hotspots. The ...
2009 21 0.4 [62] 3 Mount Redoubt [63] Alaska, United States 2009 20 2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity: 4 Kasatochi [64] Alaska, United States 2008 13.7 0.15–0.28 [65] 4 Chaitén [66] Chile 2008 30 0.5–1 [67] 1 [68] The town of Chaitén, located about 10 km southwest of the eruption site, was blanketed with ash. About 4,000 people who ...
The 2011–2012 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption was a volcanic eruption that began in the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcanic complex in Chile on 4 June 2011. The eruption, which occurred from the Cordón Caulle fissure after 51 years of the volcano being inactive, is one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the 21st century thus far. [ 2 ]
Northern Chile has little documented volcanic activity during the last ten thousand years with the majority of eruptions documented at Guallatiri, Lascar and Parinacota. [7] The first and the last of these three volcanoes as well as Taapaca itself are part of the Lauca National Park. [10]
The Apacheta-Aguilucho volcanic complex lies in northern Chile, close to the border with Bolivia. [3] The city of Calama lies 105 kilometres (65 mi) [4]-120 kilometres (75 mi) southwest of Apacheta-Aguilucho and El Tatio is about 60 kilometres (37 mi) south-southwest, but with the exception of geothermal power [2] and mining-associated infrastructure the area is remote and uninhabited. [3]
Puyehue Volcano is a stratovolcano located on the southeastern end of Cordón Caulle, just east of the main fault of the Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault Zone. Its cone hosts a 2.4 km (1.5 mi) wide crater, and products of Puyehue volcanism cover an approximate area of 160 km 2 (62 sq mi). [1]
Volcán Putana, sometimes referred to as Jorqencal or Machuca, is a stratovolcano located In the Central Volcanic Zone (CVZ) of the Andes on the border between Bolivia and Chile and close to the Sairecabur volcanic complex. Its summit is 5,884 metres (19,304 ft) above sea level and contains a summit crater with two smaller craters nested within it.