Paricutin

Paricutin

The name of Paricutin has been included in many older lists of seven natural wonders. Today also it has secured its position. It is the only volcano whose creation, evolution and extinction have been witnessed by human beings with naked eyes.
The Paricutin is a cinder cone volcano which started erupting in a cornfield in February, 1943 when the masters of the field were working there. Both the husband and wife were present in the field when volcano started erupting for the first time. Rumbling noises of deep earthquakes that resembled thunder were heard by the people of Paricutin village, three weeks before the actual eruption. The volcano grew quickly in the beginning and it reached up to the height of about 60 feet in the first week. The volcano continued to erupt for around eight years and stopped completely in 1952 reaching a full height of 424 meters above the cornfield. Volcano got most of its height in the first year after creation when it was in explosive pyroclastic phase. After just one year, the height of the volcano was 336 meters. The volcano would have erupted to more height if relatively quiet eruptions would have not occurred in the surrounding areas. Paricutin is known to be the youngest among more than 1400 volcanoes in the Trans Mexican volcanic belt. The volcano has been named after the village of the same name which was buried in lava and ash along with another village called San Juan Parangaricutiro. Though tree people died in the lightning that occurred because of eruption, no one was lost because of lava or ash.
Buried Church of San Juan


A monogenetic volcano is the one which never erupts again after the eruption has stopped completely for once. Paricutin is also considered to be of the same type like most cinder cone volcanoes.

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