Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update

Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS HAVE DISP

Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report:

FVXX20 at 20:41 UTC, 30/04/20 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20200430/2038Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2020/467

INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. WEB CAM.

ERUPTION DETAILS: VA EMS HAVE DISP

OBS VA DTG: 30/2026Z

OBS VA CLD: NO ASH EXP

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 01/0230Z NO ASH EXP

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 01/0830Z NO ASH EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 01/1430Z NO ASH EXP

RMK: EARLIER VA EMS OBS IN STLT HAVE DISP. NO NEW
VA OBS AND NO NEW VA RPRTS RECEIVED. STEAM/GAS
EMS OBS IN SUMMIT WEB CAM. VA EVENT ENDED.
...SAMBUCCI

NXT ADVISORY: NO FURTHER ADVISORIES

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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