J Volcano
In 1947, students from St. Joseph’s College ignited a pile of tires in the J Volcano, causing panic in Albuquerque as some people thought it was going to erupt. Later attempts at the same prank failed to cause even a stir. Nowadays, the pranksters would be charged with multiple felonies, smacked with harsh penalties and prison time.
Little House on the lava with a volcano in the background.
A third volcano
Off Center & Not Even 
Cool! When did they last erupt? xx
About 150,000 years ago. Relatively recent in geologic time. Thanks, Resa.
Interesting!
Here’s a map of volcanoes in New Mexico: https://nmnaturalhistory.org/online-exhibits-geoscience/volcanoes-new-mexico
I checked it out. That’s a crazy number of volcanoes. Geez, I hope climate change doesn’t reactivate them!
Looks like you already answered my question.
Walked on an active volcano in Greece once. Great post, interesting too about the ‘kiddy on’ eruptions
Super cool. Or should I say Hot! Thanks, Shey.
Yeah it was warm and warmer still when someone offered it a flower…………I had suphur burns for weeks. But it was fascinating
There’s a tiny hamelt there of like 12 houses that cling to the side. AND a taverna. obvi there’s a taverna. Oh and a cafe sitting on the edge against a landscape that was like something out of the Star Wars desert…..
I’ll bet.
This is fascinating, and even more so thinking what it would be like to be living in that house? The image has an ‘other worldly’ quality to it…..
Thanks, Janet. Here’s a page by our Natural History Museum that has a good map of the volcanoes in New Mexico: https://nmnaturalhistory.org/online-exhibits-geoscience/volcanoes-new-mexico
Thank.you. This will give me hours of entertainment….(interest). It’s taking me back a few years when I and a fellow artist from Huston drove from Rosslyn through high desert to Santa fe. We were on our way to visit friends in Santa Fe and to visit Obiquiu – Georgia Okeef’s home. I loved it. When I think of the Rift Valley I tend to think of Kenya….but now I know there is so much more to learn about another Rift Valley. Amazing how many volcanic areas there area…
There are quite a few volcanoes up the road from us in AZ. I don’t think anyone has ever tried to set them off before.
Crazy kids!
Smarter folks it AZ. Thanks, Nancy.
Cool shots, Tim.. not sure I’d want to live below the volcano though no matter how long it’s been since erruption.🤔
We’ve seen these from the top of Sandia. Amazing how far away they really are, but look so close at the time. We’ve also hiked an active volcano in Hawaii. Feeling the ground being warm as we walked over it is a surreal experience.
These volcanoes are close by on the west mesa. From the Crest, you would see Mt. Taylor, 50 miles west of Albuquerque standing at 11,300 feet. That would be surreal to walk on an active volcano. Thanks, Brad.
Until I read your previous post, I didn’t know there are volcanoes in New Mexico.
Thanks, Liz. We have a few. Here’s a map of volcanoes in New Mexico: https://nmnaturalhistory.org/online-exhibits-geoscience/volcanoes-new-mexico
Thank you for passing along the additional information, Tim. That’s a LOT of volcanoes.
I didn’t know there were vocanoes in NM!
Thanks, Brad. We have several. Check out the map on this page: https://nmnaturalhistory.org/online-exhibits-geoscience/volcanoes-new-mexico
Nice!
I can imagine the pranksters did create quite a stir at the time. How long has it been since there was any kind of real volcanic activity down your way?
Up here, we can see Mount Jefferson from town, and the Three Sisters are not far.
https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP
Thanks, Lavinia. Lots of volcanoes on the west coast and Alaska.
Kids… and yeah, today, that would not fly, would it?
No one can have fun anymore. Thanks, Dale.
Son true !
Plenty of time for the next eruption! I can imagine Laura running down the hill.
Thanks, Marina.
Interesting Tim… Yes todays world is vastly different Pranks are not tolerated. Neither is free speech.. xx
Thank you for those amazing photos x
Absolutely. Killjoys abound. Thanks, Sue.
Okay, I am going to have to admit that the student prank was pretty clever – I’m sure the eco-police would have a cow these days.
Eco-police would through the book at them, and send them to Hawaii to be sacrificed in a live volcano. Thanks, Brian.
That is a clever prank. I didn’t know NM had volcanoes. I’m reminded of when I went to Hawaii and there was a house for sale for crazy cheap, but it was right next to the lava fields. I guess that’s the price of cheap housing
At least it was a good deal. Million-dollar properties burned around Ruidoso, NM, last week in forest fires. The communities were built on one of our old volcanos. Thanks, JYP.
I heard about the wildfires in NM. Hope you are all ok!