AN IMMENSE BOILING POT: VOLCÁN RINCÓN de la VIEJA (CR)

Rincón de la Vieja Active Crater. The walls expose thick sequences of oxidized and hydrothermally altered pyroclastic deposits and light-colored lava flows. (© Bernhard Edmaier, via “Bilder von der Erde” [Images of the Earth])

Rincón de la Vieja is one of those volcanoes that don’t make headlines with fiery lava streams and end-of-world scenarios. Presently, the biggest news from it are about yet another phreatic explosion, and the most exciting photos show a pale steam plume fading away, at best with a bit of ash mixed in. Moreover, the videos of ensuing lahars we have recently seen show

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POÁS – Exciting Times for a Volcano (& Updates)

Image from RSN webcam on 17 April 2017

I know, it’s exciting times for volcanoholics when a volcano starts playing up but if you live at the foot of same edifice you might not feel quite as much excitement and hope it might soon go away… Notwithstanding, you might as well be interested what the thing on your doorstep is up to. Some background for this volcano can be found on our post “Poás” from Oct. 2015.

Ongoing eruptions at Turrialba

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March 2015 eruption from Turrialba http://www.govisitcostarica.com/region/city.asp?cID=427

Poás

(© OVSICORI)

They lived in the shadow of the mountain – the girl Iliana and her tribe. The mountain was the Poás volcano in the colorful country of Costa Rica… thus begins a legend told by the locals around Poás. Well, the girl was not sacrificed to Poás, and yet, the mountain did not destroy the people living around it. Why?