Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica: Recent submissions
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Sismo de Capellades 01 diciembre 2016, Cartago, Costa Rica
(REVISTA GEOGRÁFICA DE AMÉRICA CENTRAL, 2018)En este trabajo se hace una descripción de la fuente sísmica del sismo de Capellades, provincia de Cartago, Costa Rica, del 1 de diciembre de 2016, 00:25:20 hora UTC. Se estudian los parámetros de la fuente, centroide, ... -
Recurrencia de sismos en el Valle Central de Costa Rica
(REVISTA GEOGRÁFICA DE AMÉRICA CENTRAL, 2018)En los periodos 1910-1912, 1951-1955 y 1990-1993 se localizaron en el Valle Central de Costa Rica sismos superficiales importantes, por su magnitud y daños causados en la población, estructura y paisaje. La recurrencia de ... -
Mechanisms of Unrest and Eruption at Persistently Restless Volcanoes: Insights From the 2015 Eruption of Telica Volcano, Nicaragua
(Advancing Earh and Space Science, 2019)Many of Earth's volcanoes experience well‐defined states of “quiescence” and “unrest,” with unrest occasionally culminating in eruption. Some volcanoes, however, experience an unusually protracted (i.e., decades‐long) ... -
The Mw 6.4 Damas, Costa Rica, Earthquake of 20 November 2004: Aftershocks and Slip Distribution
(Seismological Society of America, 2006-08)The earthquake of 20 November 2004 was located north of Damas Island in the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, within the Costa Rica Deformed Belt. The earthquake was located at 24 km depth and reported with a magnitude (Mw) of ... -
Scattering of light by colloidal aluminosilicate particles Produces the unusual sky-blue color of Río Celeste (Tenorio Volcano Complex, Costa Rica)
(2013-09-18)Río Celeste (Sky-Blue River) in Tenorio National Park (Costa Rica), a river that derives from the confluence and mixing of two colorless streams-Río Buenavista (Buenavista River) and Quebrada Agria (Sour Creek)-is renowned ... -
El deslizamiento de las Torres del Irazú del 2020 (Costa Rica): antecedentes, colapso y situación actual
(Universidad Nacional, 2020)El presente trabajo presenta un recuento de las investigaciones que se realizaron desde el 2011 en el sector inestable conocido como las Torres del Irazú, sobre uno de los deslizamientos mejor estudiados a nivel mundial ... -
Isla del Coco, on Cocos Plate, converges with Isla de San Andrés, on the Caribbean Plate, at 78mm/yr
(Revista de Biologia Tropical, 2012-11)Isla del Coco is the only land mass of the Cocos Plate that emerges above sea level. This makes it the only place where Cocos Plate motion can be measured using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) monitoring. Global ... -
Relationship between Diffuse CO2 Degassing and Volcanic Activity. Case Study of the Poás, Irazú, and Turrialba Volcanoes, Costa Rica
(Frontiers in Earth Science, 2017-10-11)Active volcanoes exhibit diffuse gas emanations through the ground, the most abundant species of which is CO2. However, the relationship between diffuse degassing and volcanic activity is not often clear and some volcanoes ... -
New insights into Kawah Ijen’s volcanic system from the wet volcano workshop experiment
(Geological Society London Special Publications, 2016-02-25)Volcanoes with crater lakes and/or extensive hydrothermal systems pose significant challenges with respect to monitoring and forecasting eruptions, but they also provide new opportunities to enhance our understanding of ... -
Morphological and geochemical features of crater lakes in Costa Rica: an overview
(Journal of limnology, 2009)This paper describes the compositional and morphological features of the crater lakes found in the volcanoes of Rincón de La Vieja, Poás, Irazú, Congo and Tenorio volcanoes (Costa Rica). As evidenced by the distribution ... -
Microbial Community Structure Along a Horizontal Oxygen Gradient in a Costa Rican Volcanic Influenced Acid Rock Drainage System
(Springer, 2020)We describe the geochemistry and microbial diversity of a pristine environment that resembles an acid rock drainage (ARD) but it is actually the result of hydrothermal and volcanic influences. We designate this environment, ... -
Mercury fluxes from volcanic and geothermal sources: an update
(Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2014-08-02)We review the state of knowledge on global volcanogenic Hg emissions to the atmosphere and present new data from seven active volcanoes (Poa´s, Rinco´n de la Vieja, Turrialba, Aso, Mutnovsky, Gorely and Etna) and two ... -
Historia eruptiva del volcán Turrialba y sus impactos
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Halogen activation in the plume of Masaya volcano: field observations and box model investigations
(Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2020)Volcanic emissions are a source of halogens to the atmosphere. Rapid reactions convert the initially emitted hydrogen halides (HCl, HBr, HI) into reactive species e.g. BrO, Br2, BrCl, ClO, OClO and IO. The activation ... -
Geophysical, geochemical and geodetical signals of reawakening at Turrialba volcano (Costa Rica) after almost 150 years of quiescence
(Elsevier, 2010-11)Turrialba is a basaltic–andesitic stratovolcano (3340 masl), in the Cordillera Volcánica Central in Costa Rica. After the last eruption (1864–1866), volcanic manifestations were limited to weak fumarolic discharge (continuous ... -
Gas measurements from the Costa Rica–Nicaragua volcanic segment suggest possible along-arc variations in volcanic gas chemistry
(Elsevier, 2014)Obtaining accurate estimates of the CO2output from arc volcanism requires a precise understanding of the potential along-arc variations in volcanic gas chemistry, and ultimately of the magmatic gas signature of each ... -
Extremely high diversity of sulfate minerals in caves of the Irazú Volcano (Costa Rica) related to crater lake and fumarolic activity
(International Journal of Speleology, 2018-05)The caves of the Irazú volcano (Costa Rica), became accessible after the partial collapse of the NW sector of the Irazú volcano in 1994, offering the opportunity to investigate active minerogenetic processes in volcanic ... -
Comparación de la composición química de partículas PM10 y PM2,5 colectadas en ambientes urbanos y zonas volcánicas del área metropolitana de Costa Rica
(Revista Ciencias Ambientales, 2014-12)Se muestrearon, en forma simultánea, partículas PM10 y PM2,5 en ambientes urbanos y volcánicos del área metropolitana de Costa Rica, durante octubre y noviembre de 2012. En las áreas industriales y comerciales de alto flujo ... -
Co-ideation of disaster preparedness strategies through a participatory design approach: Challenges and opportunities experienced at Turrialba volcano, Costa Rica
(Elsevier, 2015)Disaster preparedness is key to coping and adaptation during the immediate aftermath of a natural hazard, but the majority of those at risk do not feel prepared. In this participatory action research we investigate the ... -
ANTOLOGÍA SOBRE POLITIONATOS: COMPUESTOS DE AZUFRE EXISTENTES EN LOS LAGOS CRATÉRICOS DE VOLCANES ACTIVOS
(Revista de Vulcanología, Sismología y Tectónica., 1999)En la siguiente recopilación bibliográfica sobre los oxianiones de azufre llamados politionatos, con fórmula general SxO6 2-, se contemplan algunas de sus propiedades físico-químicas, y se hace énfasis principalmente en ...