Wonders3 - Paricutin Volcano

Title

Paricutin Volcano

Latitude

19.16849

Longitude

-101.89969

Place

Michoacán, Mexico

Geocoding Status

The geocoder found more than one match, and returned the lat/long for the centroid of the best AdminDivision1 match

World_Time

Natural Wonders

Image_Url

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Link_Url

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%ADcutin

Brief

Paricutín and Jorullo both rose in an area known for its volcanoes. Called the Mexican Volcanic Belt, the region stretches about 700 miles from east to west across southern Mexico. Geologists say that eruptive activity deposited a layer of volcanic rock s

Year_Constructed

1943

Description

On February 19, the day before the volcano began to erupt, some 300 earthquakes shook the ground. On February 22, with the new cone rising and fiery skyrockets descending, the first of many geologists who would monitor and map Paricutín's behaviour over t

Description_2

Tooltips

<img width='55px' height='38px' src='http://wondersoftheworld.idvsolutions.com/Shared%20Documents/thumbnails/Paricutin.png'> Paricutin Volcano Type: Natural Wonders Location: Michoacán, Mexico Built: 1943

Details

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<td><a target='_blank' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%ADcutin'>
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LargeImage

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