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Popocatépetl volcano
Stratovolcano 5426 m / 17,802 ft
Central Mexico, 19.02°N / -98.62°W
Current status: erupting (4 out of 5)
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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: LGT VA EMS SEEN IN SAT. to 18500 ft (5600 m)

Sat, 17 Oct 2020, 00:30
00:30 AM | BY: VN
Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Washington warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 18500 ft (5600 m) altitude or flight level 185 .
The full report is as follows:

FVXX22 at 00:19 UTC, 17/10/20 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20201017/0016Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2020/911

INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. WEB CAM. NWP MODELS.
VOLCAT.

ERUPTION DETAILS: LGT VA EMS SEEN IN SAT.

OBS VA DTG: 17/0006Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL185 N1905 W09857 - N1903 W09838
- N1859 W09838 - N1854 W09856 - N1905 W09857 MOV
W 10-15KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 17/0600Z SFC/FL185 N1910 W09918
- N1903 W09837 - N1858 W09836 - N1854 W09918 -
N1910 W09918

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 17/1200Z NO VA EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 17/1800Z NO VA EXP

RMK: VA SEEN IN SAT IMAGERY AND EXTDG OUT ARND 10
NM FM SUMMIT BEFORE DSIPTG. MODEL GUIDANCE SHOWS
A CONT W-LY MOV THRU T+6 HRS. VOLCAT ALERTS
RECEIVED. ...KIBLER

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20201017/0615Z

Previous news
Fri, 16 Oct 2020, 13:00
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: ONGOING VA EMS to 18500 ft (5600 m)
Fri, 16 Oct 2020, 01:30
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EM OBS IN STLT. to 20000 ft (6100 m)
Thu, 15 Oct 2020, 14:00
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NEW VA EMS to 18500 ft (5600 m)
Wed, 14 Oct 2020, 01:45
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA NOT OBS.
Tue, 13 Oct 2020, 14:00
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EM BEGINNING 1300Z to 20000 ft (6100 m)

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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