Almost under the feet of l' farmer, a volcano had been born. Pulido and the handle d' other witnesses escaped. The next morning, when it returned, the cone had reached a height of 30 feet and was " hurling on the rocks with a great violence”. During the day, come the d' another 120 feet grew. This night, the bombs with incandescence blew more than 1000 meters d' altitude in darkness, and a mass of lava slaglike rolled on fields Pulido' the corn.
The scientific world was almost as amazed as l' unhappy farmer himself by l' sudden appearance of the volcano. Everywhere in the world, the volcanic eruptions are frequent, but the birth d' a volcano entirely new, marked by l' arrival on the surface of the ground d' a vent distinct from the room of magma, is really rare. In North America, only two volcanos news appeared in historical times. L' a d' they was western Jorullo of Mexico, born in 1759 some 50 miles in the south-east of the property Dionisio Pulido' S. The second, born approximately 183 years later, in the Pulido field, is named Paricutín for a nearby village, qu' he ends up being destroyed.

Paricutin and Jorullo have both increased in an area known for its volcanos. Called the volcanic Mexican, the area s' extends on approximately 700 miles d' is in west through the south of Mexico. Geologists say that l' eruptive activity deposited a layer of volcanic rock some 6000 feet d' thickness, d' creation; a high plateau and fertile.
During the months d' summer, l' moisture heights Publish-break charged with l' Pacific Ocean; arable rich person lands, in his turn, made this belt the area most populated in Mexico. Although the area praised already three of the four larger countries, city-Mexico City, Puebla and Guadalajara, the area around Paricutín, with some 200 miles with l' west of the capital, was still a peaceful corner inhabited by Indians tarasques beginning of the year 1940.
Its landscape of soft hills, in a zone which almost knew any volcanic activity during historical times, was l' one of most beautiful of Mexico. Although hundreds of cones of extinct ashes around the lifting of small valleys, l' eruption only in the memory of l' man had been that of remote Jorullo.

Tarasque the n' did not have popular legends concerning the volcanic eruptions in the area. But when Paricutín in their life came, they saw the events, with the passing, that predicted cataclysm. The first event was a sacrilege: the destruction 1941 d' a large wood cross on a hill. Second referred to the biblical remuneration: an invasion of grasshoppers in 1942.
When 1943 started, just like the third sign: a series of earthquakes, they were preceded, say a man, by " many noises in the center of the terre." February 19, the day before the volcano started to enter in eruption, approximately 300 earthquakes shakes the ground. February 22, with the new cone in rise and goes up out of ignited arrow decreasing, the first of many geologists which will control the behavior and the Paricutín chart during the nine next years arrived.
Consequently, Paricutín was placed under constant monitoring: it led to a true mine d' information, in particular single, transitory outline of the transitory characteristics. Volcanic phenomena and of the new processes are sometimes almost unobtrusive as of qu' they were recorded, in particular during the first Paricutín year of violence, the explosive growth and the change. This year, the cone surmounted 1.100 feet, the four fifths its final height, explosions resounded everywhere in l' State de Michoacan, the ash snowed on the remote city Mexico, and the near total of the vegetation of miles around the crater was destroyed.
During l' summer 1943, the most violent period undoubtedly the volcano.
Washed passed to approximately 50 feet below the rim of the crater. This autumn, a new vent open in an explosive way to the base of the cone, fountains of lava high in the sky. Washed finally destroyed the close villages, l' following year, but the majority of the peasants saw their means subsistence of disappearing well before that. During next years, lava flow continued almost without interruption. But in February 1952, almost nine years after Paricutín was born, the volcano knew its large last spasm d' activity. D' here there, the villages and the farms had been reinstalled with l' helps of the government. The new Bracero program attracted a great number of the farmers moved towards California for the seasonal agricultural work.