{"id":48182,"date":"2025-11-15T10:26:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=48182"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:17:51","slug":"uturuncu-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/uturuncu-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"Uturuncu Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Uturuncu Volcano Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team recently mapped the inside of Bolivia\u2019s Uturuncu volcano and found that its strange surface motions come from hot fluids and gases moving below the crater, not rising magma ready to erupt.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Uturuncu Volcano<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>large dormant volcano<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located in <\/span><b>southwestern Bolivia,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> within the <\/span><b>Andes Mountains.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>stratovolcano <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dominated by<\/span><b> dacitic lava domes and flows.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Elevation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: About <\/span><b>6,008 meters <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(19,711 feet) above sea level \u2014 it is the<\/span><b> tallest mountain in the southern part of Bolivia.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uturuncu <\/span><b>last erupted 250,000 years ago<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, yet is <\/span><b>seismically active<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and lies at the centre of a 70 km diameter uplifted region.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Beneath Uturuncu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at a depth of about 10 to 20 kilometers lies a <\/span><b>vast reservoir of magma called the Altiplano-Puna Magma Body.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spanning roughly 200 kilometers, it is the <\/span><b>biggest known active magma body in the planet\u2019s crust.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The volcano displays a distinct &#8220;sombrero&#8221; shape, with the center rising and the surrounding areas sinking.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uturuncu is known as a<\/span><b> \u201czombie\u201d volcano because of its ongoing but non-eruptive activity.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u201czombie\u201d-like unrest of Uturuncu is <\/span><b>due to the movement of liquid and gas beneath the crater<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with a low likelihood of an imminent eruption.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The volcano currently <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">experiences hundreds of small earthquakes per year.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/uturuncu-volcano-dormant-250000-years-now-called-zombie-signaling-possible-eruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EARTH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uturuncu Volcano is a large dormant volcano located in southwestern Bolivia, within the Andes Mountains. 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