GeoHazards: Volcanic Eruptions: Santa Ana
Santa Ana Volcano is located in the Apaneca Volcanic Field in El Salvador,Central America. It is one the six active volcanoes monitor by the Servicios Nacionales de Estudios Territoriales (SNET) in El Salvador, out of twenty that are considered active in this small country by Smithsonian definition. The Santa Ana Volcano is surrounded by rural communities in its proximal areas and in its close distal areas by the second and third largest cities of the country.
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| Thermal image of a group of SUNY at Buffalo and SUNY at Buffalo State College students mapping the Santa Ana Volcanic Complex sitting in the Santa Ana Volcano South-East Crater Rim. Photo by Eduardo Gutierrez (SNET). | Damage of one of the lahars from the October 1st, 2005 Santa Ana Volcano Eruption, El Salvador. Photo by Carlene Schwartz |
The following presentationswas created for the AGU General Assembly in Toronto 2009. All the information bellow belongs to Jorge V. Bajo, member of the UB Center for GeoHazards Studies and SUNY at Buffalo, Bettina Martinez-Hackert member of the UB Center for GeoHazards Studies and SUNY at Buffalo and at Buffalo State College, and Demetrio Escobar and Eduardo Gutierrez from Servicios Nacionales de Estudios Territoriales (SNET), El Salvador. Any used of it without their concent will be consider a violation of copyrights and author privilages. Contact us or the authors if you wish to use any of this materials.