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http://www.newsweek.com/mexico-volcano-burned-goats-field-636962People in the Mexican town of Pueblo Viejo have a concern - a fear that a volcano might be developing underneath them.
Suspicion over the formation of a volcano in the Michoacán state started last Sunday, when villagers discovered that some of their goats had been inexplicably burned. Then a nearby soccer field started to break apart, releasing steam, ash and gas into the air, http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/burned-goats-trigger-volcano-questions/otimex. When alarmed residents contacted authorities, researchers took the temperature of the soil and found it to be roughly 250 degrees Celsius (more than 480 degrees Fahrenheit).
Residents' concerns may reflect their proximity to and history with Paricutin, which is described as a pyroclastic cone.
People may be on high alert because of Pueblo Viejo's proximity to Parícutin, a cinder-cone volcano about 200 miles away. Parícutin was the first volcano researchers could track for its entire life: It formed suddenly in a cornfield in 1943 and within a year had grown more than than 1,000 feet tall, https://naturalhistory.si.edu/onehundredyears/expeditions/paricutin.html. It went dormant in 1952.
http://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=341060