Dormant volcano Uturuncu has seismic activity with "low eruption risk"

3 greesil 1 5/5/2025, 12:02:01 PM pnas.org ↗

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bell-cot · 8h ago
From what I can see of the paper, it's lots of cool details about doing kinda boring (by volcano standards) and responsible science.

Loads of background info & more details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uturuncu

Locally and short-term: This volcano seems to have been gurgling & smoking for the past 1/4M years, without any eruptions. It's been accumulating more lava (many miles down) for the past half-ish century - but that is not cause for alarm.

Globally and long-term: This volcano is part of a volcanic complex which has done several VEI 8 eruptions. Though nothing that big in the past couple million years. Hopefully that trend will continue.