Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update
Popocatépetl Vulkan stößt Aschenwolke auf bis zu 20000 ft (6100 m) Höhe aus
Hier der originale Bericht: NEW VA EMS.
FVXX20 at 04:51 UTC, 20/04/20 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20200420/0448Z
VAAC: WASHINGTON
VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837
AREA: MEXICO
SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]
ADVISORY NR: 2020/427
INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. WEB CAM. NWP MODELS.
RADIOSONDE.
ERUPTION DETAILS: NEW VA EMS.
OBS VA DTG: 20/0436Z
OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL200 N1900 W09840 - N1856 W09832
- N1759 W09835 - N1759 W09917 - N1900 W09840 MOV
S 5-10KT
FCST VA CLD +6HR: 20/1030Z SFC/FL200 N1904 W09841
- N1856 W09829 - N1759 W09908 - N1816 W09934 -
N1904 W09841
FCST VA CLD +12HR: 20/1630Z SFC/FL200 N1904 W09842
- N1853 W09831 - N1807 W09920 - N1826 W09939 -
N1904 W09842
FCST VA CLD +18HR: 20/2230Z SFC/FL200 N1904
W09840 - N1852 W09828 - N1805 W09931 - N1834
W09943 - N1904 W09840
RMK: NEW VA EMS NOTED IN IR STLT IMAGERY. POSS
LIGHT VA SEEN IN WEB CAM. VA MOV TO S AND SSW OF
SUMMIT AND WILL MOV MORE SW WITH TIME. ...LEE
NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20200420/1045Z
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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
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