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A nighttime Strombolian eruption at Parícutin ejects incandescent blocks and bombs onto the flanks of the scoria cone. Ejecta like this accumulated around the vent to build the cone during February 1943 to February 1952. Photo by Carl Fries, 1945 (U.S. Geological Survey, published in Luhr and Simkin, 1993).

A nighttime Strombolian eruption at Parícutin ejects incandescent blocks and bombs onto the flanks of the scoria cone. Ejecta like this accumulated around the vent to build the cone during February 1943 to February 1952.

Photo by Carl Fries, 1945 (U.S. Geological Survey, published in Luhr and Simkin, 1993).

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Michoacán-Guanajuato

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Image GVP-07346