930 Eruption of Ceboruco

Name: 930 Eruption of Ceboruco
Start: 0930
Location: Ceboruco, Mexico

930 · VEI 6

Ceboruco in Mexico erupted in 930 with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 6.

Where it erupted

Ceboruco, Mexico, with its other significant eruptions.

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The eruption

Date: 930
Volcano: Ceboruco, stratovolcano
Country: Mexico
Volcanic Explosivity Index: 6, paroxysmal (eruption column over 25 km)
Location: 21.125° N, 104.508° W

The toll

The record gives no deaths, injuries or damage for this eruption.

What the record says

NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.

Eruption of the voluminous rhyodacitic Jala Pumice, the largest known in Mexico during the Holocene, formed the initial 4-km-wide caldera about 1000 years ago.

Every eruption in 930 The 900s Ceboruco Earthquakes near Ceboruco

Sources

Volcanoes and significant eruptions from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. Volcano numbers are the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program’s. NCEI event 5208.