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 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.
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Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA NOT OBS.
Wed, 14 Oct 2020, 01:45 01:45 AM | BY: VN
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report: FVXX22 at 01:34 UTC, 14/10/20 from KNES VA ADVISORY DTG: 20201014/0132Z VAAC: WASHINGTON VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090 PSN: N1901 W09837 AREA: MEXICO SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M] ADVISORY NR: 2020/904 INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. ERUPTION DETAILS: VA NOT OBS. OBS VA DTG: 14/0121Z OBS VA CLD: VA NOT IDENTIFIABLE FM SATELLITE DATA FCST VA CLD +6HR: 14/0730Z NO VA EXP FCST VA CLD +12HR: 14/1330Z NO VA EXP FCST VA CLD +18HR: 14/1930Z NO VA EXP RMK: VA NOT OBS IN PAST FEW HRS THRU SCT WX CLDS. NO RECENT RPTS OF VA EMS RECEIVED. ...CLARK NXT ADVISORY: NO FURTHER ADVISORIES
Previous news
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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