Paricutin

Paricutin was formed on February 20, 1943. When the farmer first saw it the volcano was 30 feet high and it was throwing rocks out. All through the day it grew another 120 feet. So it was now 150 feet high. Around the area, volcanic eruptions are a commonplace, but the birth of an entirely new volcano, marked by the arrival at the earth’s surface of a distinct vent from the magma chamber, is very rare. It rose in an area that is greatly known for volcanoes. The place where this volcano formed is called the Mexican Volcanic Belt and it stretches about 700 miles from east to west along southern Mexico.

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