Table A-5 - Active volcanoes in Latin America and the Caribbean, associated volcanic hazards, and periodicity of eruptions during the last 10,000 years

Table A-5 - Active volcanoes in Latin America and the Caribbean, associated volcanic hazards, and periodicity of eruptions during the last 10,000 years

Table A-5 - Active volcanoes in Latin America and the Caribbean, associated volcanic hazards, and periodicity of eruptions during the last 10,000 years (Cont. 1)

Table A-5 - Active volcanoes in Latin America and the Caribbean, associated volcanic hazards, and periodicity of eruptions during the last 10,000 years (Cont. 2)

Table A-5 - Active volcanoes in Latin America and the Caribbean, associated volcanic hazards, and periodicity of eruptions during the last 10,000 years (Cont. 3)

Table A-5 - Active volcanoes in Latin America and the Caribbean, associated volcanic hazards, and periodicity of eruptions during the last 10,000 years (Cont. 4)

Table A-5 - Active volcanoes in Latin America and the Caribbean, associated volcanic hazards, and periodicity of eruptions during the last 10,000 years (Cont. 5)

Notes:

1. Sources of information for name of volcano, location, periodicity, location, date of last eruption, effects, and volcanic hazards: Simkin, T. et al. Volcanoes of the World. (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Hutchinson Ross Publishing Company, 1981), and Smithsonian Institution. Global Volcanism Network. (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1989-90). Volcanoes with short-term periodicity are presented in capital letters. A volcano having short-term periodicity is defined for this table as one with an eruption periodicity of 100 years or less and/or one that has erupted since 1800.

2. Date of last eruption is simplified from Volcanoes of the World using three categories: (1) "Historic" - the actual eruption date is given, sometimes qualified by "?" when data is questionable. (2) "Holocene" - including the following subcategories: (a) eruptions dated by Carbon 14, hydrophone data, dendrochronology, varve count, anthropologic evidence, lichenometry, magnetism, tephrochronology, hydration rind or fission track analysis; (b) volcanoes now displaying fumarolic or solfataric activity and giving obvious evidence of recent, although undated, eruption; (c) volcanoes virtually certain to have erupted in postglacial time even though neither dated products nor thermal features are present. (3) "Uncertain" - signifying possible Holocene activity but questionable documentation.

3. Fatalities caused by one or more eruptions.

4. Destruction of agricultural land or other property damage caused by one or more eruptions.

5. One or more eruptions were explosive.

6. Pyroclastic flows or surges and/or laterally directed blasts were associated with one or more eruptions.

7. Phreatic explosion was associated with one or more eruptions.

8. Lava flow, lava domes, or spines were associated with one or more eruptions.

9. Destructive mudflows were associated with one or more eruptions.

10. VEI = Volcanic Explosivity Index: the size or "bigness" of a historic eruption. The VEI combines total volume of products, eruptive cloud height, duration of eruption, tropospheric injection, stratospheric injection, and some descriptive terms to yield a 0-8 index of increasing explosivity as follows: 0 nonexplosive, 1 small, 2 moderate, 3 moderately large, 4 large, 5 very large, 6-8 cataclysmic.

11. Volcano number as per reference found on: Regional Seismological Center for South America (CERESIS). Preliminary Neotectonic Map of South America. (Santiago, Chile: CERESIS, 1985).