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mystery quake has a bigger signal so theoretically it should be bigger
San Pedro
Volcano Types:
Stratovolcanoes
Lava domes
Pyroclastic cone
Summit Elev: 6145 m
Latitude: 21.88°S
Longitude: 68.40°W
The composite volcano of San Pedro in the arid Atacama desert of northern Chile is one of the world's highest historically active volcanoes. The 6145-m-high basaltic andesite-to-dacitic San Pedro is located to the west of its older twin volcano, 6092-m-high San Pablo. The youngest cone of San Pedro was constructed within a large horseshoe-shaped escarpment left by the collapse of an older edifice, which produced a large debris avalanche to the west, perhaps accompanied by a major pumice eruption. Thick dacitic lava flows with steep-sided fronts mantle the upper portion of the younger cone. The youthful-looking La Poruña scoria cone on the western flank produced an 8-km-long lava flow, but Worner et al. (2000) obtained a surprisingly old Helium surface-exposure age of 103,000 years from a juvenile block of the lava flow. Reports of variable reliability mention historical eruptions of San Pedro in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Originally posted by ressiv
reply to post by muzzy
soooo we can expect an activation of the san pedro volcano ....the 6.5 was 10km away of it... :-(