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Colorado's only active volcano was listed as a moderate threat in a 2018 report. Anniversary of Mt St Helens volcano eruption May 18, 1980 has some curious if there is an active volcano near ...
Technically, the Dotsero volcano in western Colorado is active -- but don't expect to dodge magma on I-70 anytime soon (unless an asteroid hits Colorado -- then you have other problems).
The only active volcano in Colorado is just a rough 4-wheel-drive road from Interstate 70 east of the Glenwood Canyon. Photos by Christian Murdock, The Gazette Volcanic rock from Dotsero’s ...
For all of these possibilities, the USGS deems the Dotsero volcano near Glenwood Springs a “moderate” threat. A 2018 government report on the nation’s volcanoes ranked Dotsero 82nd on the risk list, ...
Though much of Colorado’s landscape was shaped by volcanic activity, only one volcano remains active in the Centennial State: Dotsero volcano. Technically, it’s dormant at the moment, which ...
CAPULIN, N.M. • Just beyond Colorado’s southern border into New Mexico, a lonely highway runs through fields of cattle and pronghorn, of windmills and splintered, crumbling remains of homesteads.
DOTSERO — At the base of Colorado’s lone active volcano is a small mobile home park, where on this day a resident offers a fair warning to a pair of curious visitors. “Is it four-wheel drive?” he asks ...
Technically, the Dotsero volcano in western Colorado is active -- but don't expect to dodge magma on I-70 anytime soon (unless an asteroid hits Colorado -- then you have other problems).
This was when perhaps the planet’s largest volcanic phenomenon was happening in what is now southwest Colorado. Spanning 22 miles wide and 62 miles long and visible from outer space, the San Juan ...