Cerro Tilaran Volcano
Updated: Mar 29, 2024 14:28 GMT -
Shield 634 m / 2080 ft
Costa Rica, 10.45°N / -84.98°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Costa Rica, 10.45°N / -84.98°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Cerro Tilaran volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
Latest nearby earthquakes
Time | Mag. / Depth | Distance / Location | |||
Mar 23, 03:48 am (Costa Rica) Mar 23, 09:48 GMT | 2.5 10 km | 14 km (8.7 mi) to the SW | Costa Rica: 5 km al Sur de Canas, Guanacaste. | Info | |
Thursday, March 21, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
Mar 21, 04:23 am (Costa Rica) Mar 21, 10:23 GMT | 2.5 3 km | 16 km (10.1 mi) to the E | Costa Rica: 12 km al Este de Tronadora, Tilaran. | Info | |
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
Mar 18, 09:27 pm (Costa Rica) Mar 19, 03:27 GMT | 2.8 8 km | 16 km (10.2 mi) to the NE | Costa Rica: 8 km al Este de Tronadora, Tilaran. | Info | |
Monday, March 18, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
Mar 18, 04:09 am (Costa Rica) Mar 18, 10:09 GMT | 3.7 112 km | 23 km (14 mi) to the NW | Costa Rica, 32 km east of Liberia, Guanacaste | Info | |
Saturday, March 23, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
Mar 23, 04:21 am (Costa Rica) Mar 23, 10:21 GMT | 2.3 10 km | 14 km (8.8 mi) to the SW | Costa Rica, 5.7 km south of Canas, Guanacaste | Info |
Background
Cerro Tilarán, also known as Cerro Tovar, is a small andesitic shield volcano that lies at the NW end of the Tilarán Range west of Lake Arenal. The 634-m-high Tilarán volcano rises immediately SW of the town of the same name. The morphologically youthful Tilarán cone is overlain only by tephra deposits from Arenal (maximum age about 7000 years), however an Ar-Ar date of 1 million years was obtained (Alvarado, 2000) and the volcano is of Pleistocene age (Alvarado 2005, pers. comm.). The Tilarán Range, which lies to the west of the main volcanic chain, is a fault-bounded tectonic block of Miocene-Pleistocene andesitic rocks of the Monteverde formation. The densely forested range is renowned for its abundant exotic birds and wildlife.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information