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Popocatépetl volcano

Popocatepetl is one of Mexico's most active volcanoes. After almost 50 years of dormancy, "Popo" came back to life in 1994 and has since then been producing powerful explosions at irregular intervals.
In the past centuries befor European invasions, large eruptions produced giant mud flows that have buried Atzteque settlements, even entire pyramids.

Stratovolcano 5426 m / 17,802 ft
Central Mexico, 19.02°N / -98.62°W
Popocatépetl volcano eruptions:
1345-47, 1354, 1363(?), 1488, 1504, 1509(?), 1512, 1518, 1519-23(?), 1528, 1530, 1539-40, 1542, 1548, 1571, 1580, 1590, 1592-94, 1642, 1663-65, 1666-67, 1697, 1720, 1802-04, 1827(?), 1834(?), 1852(?), 1919-22, 1923-24, 1925-27(?), 1933, 1942-43, 1947, 1994-95, 1996-2003, 2004-ongoing
Typical eruption style:
Dominantly explosive, construction of lava domes. Plinian eruptions at intervals of several centuries or few thousands of years, vulcanian and strombolian activity in intermittent phases.
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• Posted By: Andrew [109.157.205.215] on Feb 22, 2013 01:24PM
  Duration
  

  How long did this last for
• Posted By: Big Mike [72.193.45.86] on Nov 15, 2012 07:37PM
  quake 6.0 not far from this volcano
  

  Posted: Nov 15, 2012 2:01 AM PST

  Updated: Nov 15, 2012 4:21 AM PST

  MEXICO CITY (AP) - A magnitude-6.0 earthquake set off alarms in Mexico's capital Today

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  and popocatepetl volcano having much more activity today

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• Posted By: melissa [69.171.178.24] on Apr 26, 2012 05:39AM Category: Eruptions & current activity
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  Has evacuation started? N how big will this eruption be? Will it wipe out more then mexico?

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  Posted By: britny on Apr 30, 2012 05:56AM

  all I know is it wont wipr out mexico..
• Posted By: jake [108.163.120.17] on Apr 18, 2012 09:19PM
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  what just happen

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  Posted By: snake on Apr 18, 2012 09:25PM

  it blew up

  Posted By: britny on Apr 30, 2012 05:52AM

  no

Background:

Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, towers to 5426 m 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America's 2nd-highest volcano.  The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 250-450 m deep crater.  The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano. 
At least three previous major cones were destroyed by gravitational failure during the Pleistocene, producing massive debris-avalanche deposits covering broad areas south of the volcano.  The modern volcano was constructed to the south of the late-Pleistocene to Holocene El Fraile cone.  Three major plinian eruptions, the most recent of which took place about 800 AD, have occurred from Popocatépetl since the mid Holocene, accompanied by pyroclastic flows and voluminous lahars that swept basins below the volcano.  Frequent historical eruptions, first recorded in Aztec codices, have occurred since precolumbian time.

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Source: GVP, Smithsonian Institution - Popocatepetl information