GVP volcano 344092 · no holder yet
Nejapa-Miraflores
Nejapa-Miraflores is a 360 m fissure vent in Nicaragua, last erupted in 1060.
- Type
- Fissure vent(s) (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 360 m above sea level
- Rock
- Basalt / Picro-Basalt
- Setting
- Subduction zone, continental, over 25 km
- Last eruption
- 1060
- Largest known
- VEI 3, severe, 1060
- Eruptions
- 8 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 12.12°N 86.32°W · Nicaragua
- Region
- Central America Volcanic Arc, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 344092
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).