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Satellite images of Popocatepetl volcano (c)Google Earth View
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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.

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: VA EM OBSD to 19000 ft (5800 m)

Wed, 21 Oct 2020, 13:00
13:00 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:

FVXX22 at 12:58 UTC, 21/10/20 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20201021/1255Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2020/926

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

ERUPTION DETAILS: VA EM OBSD

OBS VA DTG: 21/1246Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL190 N1902 W09838 - N1858 W09838
- N1835 W09903 - N1846 W09916 - N1902 W09838 MOV
SW 5KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 21/1900Z SFC/FL190 N1906 W09856
- N1901 W09837 - N1859 W09838 - N1853 W09856 -
N1906 W09856

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 22/0100Z NO VA EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 22/0700Z NO VA EXP

RMK: CONS VA EM SEEN ON STLT IMAGERY EXTENDING
APPROX 40 NM SW FM SUMMIT. VA HEIGHT AND FRCST
BASED ON IMAGERY AND MODEL GUIDANCE. WINDS EXPCD
TO VEER MOR W THRU FRCST PERIOD. ...KIM

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20201021/1900Z

Previous news
Tue, 20 Oct 2020, 22:15
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA NOT SEEN IN SAT OR WEBCAM
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 20 Oct 2020
Tue, 20 Oct 2020, 12:45
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NEW VA EMS to 18500 ft (5600 m)
Mon, 19 Oct 2020, 23:45
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA NOT SEEN IN SAT OR WEBCAM.
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 19 Oct 2020
Mon, 19 Oct 2020, 14:45
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NEW VA EMS OBS VA DTG: 19/1406Z to 19000 ft (5800 m)
Mon, 19 Oct 2020, 00:30
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA IS NOT SEEN IN SAT OR WEBCAM.

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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