That’s why about a hundred geologists, volcanologists and seismologists visited Paricutin last week to mark the anniversary, share experiences and talk about how to prevent disaster. Paricutin ...

The newborn volcano was a part of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, a 600-mile stretch of extinct volcanoes and smaller cinder cones. The volcanic soil deposits and moist Pacific breezes made it an ...

The Paricutin volcano erupted from 1943 to 1952 with several eruptive phases. In early 1943, residents near Paricutin, Mexico, about 200 miles west of Mexico City, experienced hundreds of earthquakes.

The Vera Cruz El Dictamen had a newsbeat: a new volcano was hissing and smoking up out of a farmer’s field, just as famed Paricutin did four years ago. Villagers from the interior, said El ...

A church tower peeks above from where lava from the Paricutin volcano buried the church decades ago, in San Juan Parangaricutiro, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023.

The ground is still hot atop the crater of Paricutin — the first volcano of its kind to have its full life cycle documented by modern science when it erupted 80 years ago.