{"id":129223,"date":"2026-10-16T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=129223"},"modified":"2026-10-16T13:39:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:09:50","slug":"masaya-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/masaya-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"Masaya Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Masaya Volcano Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Satellite measurements of Nicaragua\u2019s Masaya volcano suggest magma is entering one reservoir as another drains, offering clues that could improve monitoring for future hazards. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Masaya Volcano<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>active basaltic shield-like caldera volcano<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located in <\/span><b>Nicaragua <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in <\/span><b>Central America, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about 20 km southeast of the capital city, Managua.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It forms part of the <\/span><b>Central American Volcanic Arc<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, formed by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/subduction-zone\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>subduction<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the <\/span><b>Cocos Plate beneath the Caribbean Plate.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>large El Ventarr\u00f3n caldera<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (6 \u00d7 11.5 km) was formed by a series of Plinian eruptions in the past 6000 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>caldera contains multiple collapse craters <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>cinder cones,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the <\/span><b>currently active Santiago crater <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">formed between 1850\u20131853.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The volcano is known for its<\/span><b> persistent lava lake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>high degassing rates.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Activity <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is <\/span><b>typically Strombolian to Vulcanian<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with ash emissions, lava fountains, and occasional lava flows.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>current activity at Santiago crater<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> includes a <\/span><b>convecting lava lake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>continuous gas emissions.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>At times,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Masaya <\/span><b>emits large amounts of sulfur dioxide<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gas. In 1981, sulfur dioxide was released from Santiago Crater at a rate of 500,000 tons per year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1979, Masaya became <\/span><b>Nicaragua&#8217;s first national park.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is officially called Masaya Volcano National Park (Parque Nacional Volc\u00e1n Masaya).\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/something-strange-is-happening-beneath-nicaraguas-masaya-volcano\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>STD<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masaya Volcano is an active basaltic shield-like caldera volcano located in Nicaragua in Central America, about 20 km southeast of the capital city, Managua. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":129191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10914],"class_list":["post-129223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-masaya-volcano","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129238,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129223\/revisions\/129238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}