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Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica?

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Database on volcanoes and eruptions of all world regions. The Smithsonian says http://www.volcano.si.edu/ …. Type Stratovolcano eruption eruption Summit Ht yet.: 1670 meters (5479 feet) http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/arenal/arenal.html These data come University of North Dakota and different information than that of the Smithsonian Institution (above). Conical volcano Arenal is the youngest volcano in Costa Rica and one of its active. The towers andesitic-1657 m above the volcano eastern shore of Lake Arenal, which has been enlarged by a hydroelectric project. Arenal lies along a volcanic chain that has migrated north-west of the lava domes of the late Pleistocene lost by Chato volcano Pleistocene to Holocene, which contains a crater 500 m wide summit occupied by a lake. The first known eruptions of Arenal took place about 7000 years and is active concurrently with Cerro Chato until the activity of Chato ended about 3500 years ago. Growth of Arenal has been characterized by significant periodic explosive eruptions at intervals of several hundreds of years and periods of lava cone. latest release eruptive Arenal Armor period began July 29, 1968 at 7:20, when "Cerro Arenal – as it was called by local residents – a glow on the side explosive west of the volcano. Two villages at the foot of the volcano – Pueblo Nuevo and Tabacon – were completely destroyed and 78 people died. Between July 29 and 31 three new craters formed on the western flank of the volcano and a quarter mile square area and (5.8 square miles) was devastated. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1405-033&volpage=erupt Rash's story here …..

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