Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update
Popocatépetl Vulkan wirft Aschenwolke auf bis zu 19000 ft (5800 m) Höhe aus
Hier der originale Bericht: CONS VA EMS.
FVXX22 at 09:59 UTC, 02/10/20 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20201002/0958Z
VAAC: WASHINGTON
VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837
AREA: MEXICO
SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]
ADVISORY NR: 2020/860
INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. WEB CAM. NWP MODELS.
ERUPTION DETAILS: CONS VA EMS.
OBS VA DTG: 02/0931Z
OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL190 N1855 W10032 - N1852 W10019
- N1842 W10020 - N1842 W10032 - N1855 W10032 MOV
W 10-15KT SFC/FL190 N1905 W09837 - N1857 W09837 -
N1847 W09908 - N1859 W09913 - N1905 W09837 MOV SW
10-15KT
FCST VA CLD +6HR: 02/1530Z SFC/FL190 N1904 W09838
- N1859 W09838 - N1829 W09943 - N1850 W09953 -
N1904 W09838
FCST VA CLD +12HR: 02/2130Z SFC/FL190 N1905
W09837 - N1901 W09838 - N1831 W09944 - N1850
W09956 - N1905 W09837
FCST VA CLD +18HR: 03/0330Z SFC/FL190 N1905
W09838 - N1859 W09837 - N1823 W09938 - N1839
W09949 - N1905 W09838
RMK: RESIDUAL VA FM EARLIER EMS CONT TO MOV W
AND IS CURRENTLY 105 NM FM SUMMIT AND VERY FAINT
IN SAT IMAGERY. NEW VA EMS ARE MOV WSW AND EXTDG
ARND 40 NM FM SUMMIT AND BCMG FAINTER AT THE END.
MODEL GUIDANCE SHOWS A W/SW MOV THRU T+18 HRS.
...KIBLER
NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20201002/1600Z
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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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