Has there EVER been any significant volcanic activity in Honduras? If so, can you point me toward any research or other info regarding this area?

rocky Steve Dearth

Dear Steve,

If you want to live in Central America and be safe from volcanoes Honduras looks like the place. The following four volcanoes have erupted in the last 10,000 years but not in historical time:

Isla el Tigra (stratovolcano)
Isla Zacate Grande (stratovolcano)
Lake Yojoa (volcanic field)
Utila Island (pyroclastic cones)

For additional info you might have a look at:

Williams, H., and McBirney, A.R., 1969, Volcanic history of Honduras: Univ. of Calif. Pub. Geol. Sci., 85: 1-101.

McBirney, A.R., and Bass, M.N., 1969, Geology of the Bay Islands, Honduras: American Assoc. of Petroleum Geology Memoir 11, p. 229-243.

Steve Mattox, University of North Dakota

Source of Information: Simkin, T., and Siebert, L., 1994, Volcanoes of the world: Geoscience Press, Tucson, Arizona, 349 p. 

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