{"id":121753,"date":"2023-12-02T06:20:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T06:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=121753"},"modified":"2023-12-02T06:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T06:20:03","slug":"worlds-most-deadly-volcano-few-have-heard-of-but-could-erupt-at-any-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/world-news\/worlds-most-deadly-volcano-few-have-heard-of-but-could-erupt-at-any-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Worlds most deadly volcano few have heard of but could erupt at any moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are more than 200 volcanoes in South America, situated mostly in the Andes.<\/p>\n

While they offer beautiful landscape views with their snow-capped peaks, many are active and lethal.<\/p>\n

There is one volcano that effectively trumps the rest, a mountain so high that it veers out of view from the bottom.<\/p>\n

Cotopaxi, in Ecuador, has struck the fear of god into many volcanologists studying it and the surrounding region.<\/p>\n

This is because Cotopaxi is wildly active and poses perhaps the biggest threat to the greatest number of people, hundreds of thousands of Ecuadorians who wait patiently around its base hoping that it doesn’t, as the scientists say it will, completely explode anytime soon.<\/p>\n

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One of the tallest volcanoes in the world, Cotopaxi stands at a whopping 19,393 feet.<\/p>\n

It sits amid the Cordillera Central mountain region in central Ecuador and is one of the country’s most active volcanoes.<\/p>\n

Some 50 eruptions have occurred at it since the 16th century, the most recent of which came in 2022.<\/p>\n

Last year, gas and vapour reached heights of 1.1 miles above its crater and threatened to blow entirely.<\/p>\n

Ash from the volcano eventually fell on lands south of the capital, Quito, and blanketed the nearby valleys in a layer of black.<\/p>\n

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