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'El Chichón' is an active volcano in northwestern Chiapas, Mexico. Its only recorded eruptive activity was in March-April 1982, when it produced a one km-wide caldera that then filled with an acidic crater lake. The eruption killed around 2,000 people who lived near the volcano. It had high-sulphur anhydrite-bearing magma explosive eruptions with pyroclastic flows and surges that were devastating.
In 2000, the lake's water temperature increased.

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★ Global Volcanism Program: El Chichón