The Laguna del Maule volcanic system is undergoing strong deformation; uplift between 2004 and 2007 attracted the attention of the global scientific community after it was detected by radar interferometry. Between January 2006 and January 2007 uplift of was measured, and uplift during 2012 was about . Between 2007 and 2011 the uplift reached close to . A change in the deformation pattern occurred in 2013 related to an earthquake swarm that January, with deformation slowing through to mid-2014 at least. Measurements in 2016 indicated that the uplift rate was ; uplift has continued into 2018 and the total deformation has reached to . This uplift is one of the largest in all volcanoes which are not actively erupting; the strongest uplift worldwide was recorded between 1982 and 1984 at Campi Flegrei in Italy with an end change of . Other actively deforming dormant volcanoes in the world are Lazufre in Chile, Santorini in Greece from 2011 to 2012, and Yellowstone Caldera in the United States at a rate of 1/7th that of Laguna del Maule. Another South American volcano, Uturunku in Bolivia has been inflating at a pace 1/10th that of Laguna del Maule's. There is evidence that earlier deformations occurred at Laguna del Maule, with the lake shores having risen by about during the Holocene possibly as a consequence of about entering the magmatic system.