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  2. List of volcanoes in the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in the Caribbean, listed by country or territory. List. Morne Plat Pays, Dominica. Dominica Morne aux ...

  3. Geology of Puerto Rico - Wikipedia

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    Topography of Puerto Rico Satellite Image of Puerto Rico. The Geology of Puerto Rico can be divided into three major geologic provinces: The Cordillera Central, the Carbonate, and the Coastal Lowlands. [1] Puerto Rico is composed of Jurassic to Eocene volcanic and plutonic rocks, which are overlain by younger Oligocene to recent carbonates and ...

  4. Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc - Wikipedia

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    Bathymetry of the northeast corner of the Caribbean Plate showing the major faults and plate boundaries; view looking south-west. The main bathymetric features of this area include: the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc; the old inactive volcanic arc of the Greater Antilles (Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola); the Muertos Trough; and the Puerto Rico Trench formed at the plate boundary ...

  5. Caribbean plate - Wikipedia

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    Bathymetry of the northeast corner of the Caribbean plate showing the major faults and plate boundaries; view looking south-west. The main bathymetric features of this area include: the Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc; the old inactive volcanic arc of the Greater Antilles (Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola); the Muertos Trough; and the Puerto Rico Trench formed at the plate boundary ...

  6. Puerto Rico Trench - Wikipedia

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    The Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico do not have active volcanic activity since approximately 30 million years ago, [18] while the last active volcanoes in Hispaniola, Thomazanue and Morne la Vigie, became extinct within 1.5 million years ago. However, the islands are at risk of earthquakes and tsunamis. The Puerto Rico Trench has produced ...

  7. Active volcano - Wikipedia

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    World map of active volcanoes and plate boundaries KÄ«lauea's lava entering the sea Lava flows at Holuhraun, Iceland, September 2014. An active volcano is a volcano that has erupted during the Holocene (the current geologic epoch that began approximately 11,700 years ago), is currently erupting, or has the potential to erupt in the future. [1]

  8. Geography of Puerto Rico - Wikipedia

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    Geologically separated from the Greater Antilles island of Hispaniola by the Mona Passage and from the Lesser Antilles island arc by the Anegada Passage, the main island of Puerto Rico, the Spanish Virgin Islands of Vieques and Culebra, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands except for the southernmost island of Saint Croix all lie on the same carbonate platform and insular ...

  9. List of earthquakes in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

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    Felt throughout Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the US and British Islands. It is colloquially known as the 2010 Moca earthquake. It caused minor damage in the western and northwestern regions of Puerto Rico, and a minor landslide that affected a portion of PR-111. It is the largest Puerto Rican earthquake to have occurred on land in ...