Massive eruption at Santiaguito Volcano in Guatemala ()

Santiaguito Volcano eruption - near the city of Quetzaltenango, in the western highlands of Guatemala on 14 February 2024 Santiaguito Volcano eruption in Guatemala on 14 February 2024 Spectacular explosive activity at the Santiaguito volcano, near the city of Quetzaltenango, in western Guatemala. Washington’s Volcanic Ash Advisory Center has reported intermittent emissions of volcanic ash plumes. The cataclysmic explosion of Santa María in 1902 was one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century. It devastated the surrounding landscape, and left a huge crater in the side of the mountain. Santiaguito is a complex of lava domes and lava flows that began erupting into that crater in 1922, and today, after 90 years of continuous activity. Eruptive history at Santa Maria is thought to have begun 30000 years ago, resulting in gradual construction of a 3772m high stratovolcano. Before 1902, the volcano had been in a long period of quiescence and no records of act