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Paricutin Volacano , or the Volcan de Paricutin in Mexico has originated recently, and is one of the natural wonders whose birth, growth and death have been well recorded. The eruption that created Paricutin began in 1943 and continued until the year 1952. The first year covered most of the explosive activity and the cone grew to a height of 1,100 ft. and although it wasn't as cataclysmic as the fall of Pompeii, it changed forever the lives of the inhabitants of Paricutin.
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Effusive activity began from the Paricutin Volcano on the second day and continued till the end of the eruption. Flowing Lava covered about 25 square kms and had a volume of about 1.4 cubic km. The rate of eruption declined steadily until the last 6 months of the eruption, when frequent violent explosions were frequent resumed. The cone of the Paricutin Volcano continued to grow for another 8 years. However, in those 8 years, subsequent eruptions added only another 290 feet to it. The eruption finally ended in a blaze of violent activity in 1952.
Paricutin exploded out of a Mexican cornfield about 200 miles (322 kilometers) west of Mexico City in early 1943, giving the modern world its first opportunity to witness the birth of a volcano. Within two years, The Paricutin Volcano's slow-moving lava buried most of the town of Paricutin and almost also its neighbor, San Juan Parangricutiro. The current height of the Paricutin Volcano Elevation is 10,400 feet. Miraculously, however, the lava and ash caused no direct causalities, although three people died from lightning associated with the eruption.
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The flow was made up of many smaller portions, called either a "flow field" or a "compound flow". Some of the new flows even erupted out of the flow field onto the surface from locations a few kilometers from the cone. There were secondary vents, from where lava got to the surface after traveling in tubes. They are called "bocca" after the Spanish word for "mouth".
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