Is there a new volcano forming in Mexico?

[Astronuc]

People 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).

http://www.newsweek.com/mexico-volcano-burned-goats-field-636962

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

 

[rootone]

If a completely new volcano was forming, unconnected with other known volcanos,
I would expect signs of it, significant tremors at least, before lava breaks to surface and starts burning animals etc.

 

[davenn]

It's likely just a geothermal phenomenon occurring as the soil is composting, according to the Weather Channel.

good grief ! ... give me a break