Between 1993 and 1998, an area centred 7 km north of Sabancaya was uplifting at a rate of 2 cm/year (Pritchard & Simons 2002). The deformation pattern was well fit by an inflating point source at 11-13 km depth, inferred to be a magmatic source.
In 2003, there was up to  5 cm of subsidence associated with a Mw 5.3 tectonic earthquake to the west of Sabancaya on 13 December 2002 (Jay et al 2015).
No deformation was detected at Sabancaya between 2007 and 2011 during a regional ALOS survey of Northern Andes Volcanoes (Morales Rivera et al., 2016).
TSX interferograms at Sabancaya showed up to 6 cm of subsidence associated with an earthquake swarm in February 2013 (Jay et al 2015). A Mw 5.9 earthquake on 17 July 2013 was accompanied by up to 5 cm uplift and over 15 cm of subsidence. Aftershocks following the 17 July 2013 earthquake were associated with up to 7 cm of subsidence, and approximately 1 cm of post-seismic subsidence was observed between Nov. 2013 and May 2014 (Jay et al 2015).