Paricutín

Parícutin (or Volcán de Parícutin, also accented Paricutín) is a cinder cone volcano in the Mexican state of Michoacán, close to a lava-covered village of the same name. It appears on many versions of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. Paricutín is part of the Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field, which covers much of west central Mexico. Three weeks before the actual eruption, rumbling noises were heard that resembled thunder by people near Paricutin village, but were actually deep earthquakes. The volcano began as a fissure in a cornfield owned by a P'urhépecha farmer, Dionisio Pulido, on February 20, 1943. Pulido, his wife, witnessed the initial eruption of ash and stones first-hand "Dionisio Pulido, and his wife Paula were...