Satellite images of Popocatepetl volcano (c)Google Earth View
Stratovolcano 5426 m / 17,802 ft
Central Mexico, 19.02°N / -98.62°W
Current status:
erupting (4 out of 5)
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.
Popocatépetl volcano tours:
Popocatépetl Volcano Special (tour to see the ongoing eruption of Mexico's most active volcano)
Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NEW VA EMS. to 19000 ft (5800 m)
Tue, 11 Aug 2020, 14:15
14:15 PM | BY: VN
Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Washington warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 19000 ft (5800 m) altitude or flight level 190 .
The full report is as follows:
FVXX20 at 14:08 UTC, 11/08/20 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20200811/1404Z
VAAC: WASHINGTON
VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837
AREA: MEXICO
SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]
ADVISORY NR: 2020/771
INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. WEB CAM. NWP MODELS.
RADIOSONDE.
ERUPTION DETAILS: NEW VA EMS.
OBS VA DTG: 11/1356Z
OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL190 N1903 W09847 - N1903 W09837
- N1859 W09835 - N1852 W09844 - N1903 W09847 MOV
SW 5-10KT
FCST VA CLD +6HR: 11/2000Z SFC/FL190 N1905 W09846
- N1902 W09836 - N1859 W09837 - N1855 W09847 -
N1905 W09846
FCST VA CLD +12HR: 12/0200Z SFC/FL190 N1905 W09849
- N1901 W09838 - N1900 W09838 - N1852 W09849 -
N1905 W09849
FCST VA CLD +18HR: 12/0800Z NO VA EXP
RMK: WEB CAM SHOWS A FEW SMALL RECENT PUFFS
DRIFTING FROM SUMMIT. VA MOV TO SW AND WSW. ...LEE
NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20200811/2000Z
Previous news
Over the past weeks, the activity of the volcano has remained essentially unchanged at moderate levels. ...
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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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