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Villarrica volcano, Chile

Eruptive history


based on "Volcanoes of the World", 1994

-6690
-3730
-2985+/-500
-2240
-2140
-1975+/-150
-1810+/-200
-1080
- 670
  110
  330
 1558
		damage?
 1562
 1575
	 	cited as eruption in many sources, but has
	 	been a destructive earthquake without erup-
		tion
 1594
 1640 03 Feb
		damage by mudflows
 1647 13 May
		uncertain
 1657 15 Mar
		uncertain
 1688
 1716
 1730 08 Jul
 1737 24 Dec
 1742
 1745
 1751 14 Dec
		lava flow
 1759 -- Dec
 1777
 1780
 1787
		lava flow
 1790
 1792
 1796
 1799
 1801
 1806
 1815 - 1818
 1822 19 Nov
 1832 24 Dec
 1837 07 Nov - 1837 21 Nov
 1852
		uncertain
 1853 -- Nov
		lava flow
 1859 19 May - 1860 12 Apr
 1864 -- Oct
 1867 - 1868
		uncertain
 1869 04 Feb - 1870 24 Feb (+/-4 days)
 1874 -- Apr
 1875 17 Nov - 1876
 1877 12 May
 1879 02 Feb
 1883
 1893 - 1894?
 1897 - 1898?
 1904
 1906 22 Apr
 1907 10 May - 1907 26 May
 1908 31 Oct - 1908 21 Dec
		violent explosive activity with lava emission
		and lahars
 1909 19 Aug
		mudflows
 1910
		uncertain
 1913
		no eruption!
 1915 - 1918?
 1919
		uncertain
 1920 10 Dec - 1920 13 Dec
		lava flows and lahars
 1921 10 Oct
		lava flows
 1929 27 Dec
		increased fumarolic activity only
 1933 05 Jan
 1935
 1938 11 Feb
 1948 09 Oct - 1949 03 Feb
		lava effusion and lava pond activity followed
		by violent explosive activity (about 50 killed,
		and widespread damage) in October 1948, two
		more paroxysms on 1 and 31 Jan 1949
 1950
		uncertain
 1958 06 Nov - 1959 21 Dec
		occasional explosions from summit pit crater
 1960 - 1961
		uncertain
 1963 25 Feb - 1964 03 Mar
		cinder cone builds in summit crater, lava out-
		flow cuts channel in glacier; more vigorous ac-
		tvity in May 1963 causes destructive lahars; ac-
		tivity during the following 10 months is poorly
		documented but may have continued intermit-
		tently; renewed lava effusion in Feb 1964 fol-
		lowed by violent explosions on 1-2 Mar: lahars
		destroy part of Coñaripe village and kill 25
 1971 29 Oct - 1972 10 Jan
		effusive activity in Nov-Dec 1971 cuts channel
		into glacier; paroxysmal eruption on 29-30 Dec
		from fissure across summit causes rapid melting
		of snow and glaciers with resulting davastating
		lahars: widespread damage, and at least 15 killed;
		lava flows reach up to 15 km from summit
 1972 and following years
		weak Strombolian activity from small vent at
		crater floor
 1977 21 Jan - 1977 30 Jan
 1980 20 Jun - 1980 24 Sep
 1983 14 Oct - 1983 16 Oct
 1984 11 Aug - 1985 18 Apr
		mainly effusive activity accompanied by minor
		Strombolian activity; cinder cone growth in the
		summit crater and lava cuts channels into icecap;
		stronger explosive activity after late Dec 1984, most
		notably in early Feb 1985
 1985 - present (late 1996)
		persistent lava pond within summit pit crater, oc-
		casional periods of stronger activity building small
		cinder cones and phreatic ash emissions


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