GVP volcano 344070 · no holder yet
Cerro Negro
Cerro Negro is a 728 m pyroclastic cone in Nicaragua, last erupted in 1999.
- Type
- Pyroclastic cone(s) (minor landform)
- Summit
- 728 m above sea level
- Rock
- Basalt / Picro-Basalt
- Setting
- Subduction zone, continental, over 25 km
- Last eruption
- 1999
- Largest known
- VEI 3, severe, 1992
- Eruptions
- 23 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 12.51°N 86.70°W · Nicaragua
- Region
- Central America Volcanic Arc, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 344070
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).