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Abstract:
The Colima volcanic complex is the most prominent
volcanic center of the western Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. It consists
of two southward-younging volcanoes, Nevado de Colima (the 4,320-m-high
point of the complex) on the north and the historically active Volcan
de Colima at the south. A group of cinder cones of probable late-Pleistocene
age is located on the floor of the Colima graben west and east of
the Colima Complex. Volcan de Colima (also known as Volcan Fuego)
is a youthful stratovolcano constructed within a 5-km-wide caldera,
breached to the south, that has been the source of large debris
avalanches. Slope failure has occurred repetitively from both the
Nevado and Fuego cones, and has produced a thick apron of debris-avalanche
deposits on three sides of the complex. Frequent historical eruptions
from Colima's summit crater have produced vertical pyroclastic columns,
pyroclastic flows, and lava flows.
From:
Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Network's Website
Latest Earthquakes in this region
(last updated: 04. January 2006:17:29
MET):
From Swiss
Seismological Service:
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a t e Time (UTC) Location Dep Magni. Region
14Dec2005 21:22:41.3 18.8N 100.9W115 MS=4.8 M*GSR GUERRERO, MEXICO 0120
Only events with an average magnitude larger/equal than
3 are listed.
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