Poas crater in Costa Rica.
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Central American volcanoes are located along the Pacific Plate as part of what is known as the "Ring of Fire." There are no volcanoes on the Atlantic side of Central America. Volcanoes are monitored to reduce risks from volcanic activity. Monitoring includes detecting changes in magma movement beneath the volcano to anticipate an eruption ahead of time and remotely detecting volcanic events like explosive eruptions and lahars (volcanic mudflows or debris flows).

SERVIR related volcano products include Digital Elevation Models of Mesoamerican volcanoes (developed by SERVIR research affiliate SSAI), and a "Volcano Cam" plug in for SERVIR-VIZ that allows users to view live-webcams of select Mesoamerican volcanoes.

Mesoamerican Volcano Products
• Click on the SERVIR-VIZ icon to download
and install a 3D Earth Viewer to view the
Mesoamerican volcano cams
• Click on the SERVIR Data Portal icon
to search and download data products
for Mesoamerica
• Volcanoes in South and Central America
Images of regional volcanoes. Developed
by SERVIR Research Partners USGS
• University of Hawaii Institute of Geophysics
and Planetology
Near Realtime Monitoring of Global Hotspots. System uses infrared satellite data provided
by the NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) to view thermal hotspots

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