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Poás is one of Costa Rica´s most active volcanoes, and one of its most frequently visited and prominent ones. It contains a green acid crater lake and during some of its frequent phreatic eruptions, water from the lake is ejected like a geyser.
1 kwi 2024 · Today, the Poas Volcano experienced one of its most significant ash eruptions in the past five years. As of noon, ash and gas emissions persisted, though details regarding the height of the plume remain undisclosed, visible from kilometers away.
1 lip 2024 · Poas volcano (Costa Rica) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 1 May-7 May 2024 (New Activity / Unrest) Wed, 8 May 2024, 14:00. OVSICORI-UNA reported continuing and sometimes vigorous gas-and-steam emissions from vents on the crater floor at Poás during 30 April-7 May.
Poas volcano (Costa Rica) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 7 September-13 September 2022 (Continuing Activity) On 9 September OVSICORI-UNA reported that activity at Poás had increased since mid-August, characterized by notably increased seismicity.
Thanks to our numerous expeditions to Erta Ale and Dallol and beyond, we have an extensive collection of images showing the volcano's lava lake, the desert, the colorful hot springs of Dallol, the vast salt lakes, camel caravans and more.
9 mar 2017 · The following parameters of the Costa Rican earthquake, following a smaller foreshock, were received from the Coast & Geodetic Survey in Rockville, Maryland: Date, 13 May 1969; Time, 141632 GMT; Location, Epicenter 10°N 86°W near Costa Rican coast, 140 miles west of San José; Magnitude, 6.5 Richter scale (provisional); no reports of damage ...
2 kwi 2024 · The broad vegetated edifice of Poás, one of the most active volcanoes of Costa Rica, contains three craters along a N-S line. The frequently visited multi-hued summit crater lakes of the basaltic-to-dacitic volcano are easily accessible by vehicle from the nearby capital city of San José.
