Cerro Negro
1995 Eruption
Platectonics and eruption products
Physical Features and Fun Facts
- Started in May
- Ended a few months later (about 79 days)
- Erupted ash, tephra, bombs, scoria, gas, and lava
- Nobody was dangerously injured, or died (2,000-6,000 evacuated)
- Large Caldera, and ash and smoke come out of it
- Lava flows out of side vents, and at the base
- Cerro Negro means, "Black Hill"
- Aa lava flow
- People can sled\board\surf down it due to it's slopes being made of sand
- Convergent boundary
- Formed from Cocos subducting into Caribbean
- Erupts FELSIC lava, ash, gas, and tephra
Location, and type
- 25 km northeast of Leon Nicaragua, South America
- Cinder Cone