Carihuairazo Volcano
Updated: Apr 24, 2024 13:23 GMT -
Stratovolcano 5102 m / 16739 ft
Ecuador, -1.4°S / -78.75°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Ecuador, -1.4°S / -78.75°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Carihuairazo volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
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Background
Carihuairazo is an eroded Pleistocene stratovolcano truncated by edifice collapse, leaving a caldera breached to the NE. A younger volcano, Puñalica, was constructed between about 18,000 and 14,000 years before present 5 km east of Carihuairazo (Clapperton 1990). A landslide and lahar in 1698 produced debris that reached the town of Ambato (Hall 1987, pers. comm.).---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information