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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: CONS VA EMS. to 20000 ft (6100 m)

Thu, 22 Oct 2020, 19:30
19:30 PM | BY: VN
Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Washington warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 20000 ft (6100 m) altitude or flight level 200 .
The full report is as follows:

FVXX22 at 19:26 UTC, 22/10/20 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20201022/1902Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2020/930

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

ERUPTION DETAILS: CONS VA EMS.

OBS VA DTG: 22/1851Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL200 N1902 W09838 - N1901 W09837
- N1850 W09848 - N1856 W09852 - N1902 W09838 MOV
SW 5-10KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 23/0100Z SFC/FL200 N1901 W09839
- N1900 W09838 - N1844 W09832 - N1844 W09843 -
N1901 W09839

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 23/0700Z SFC/FL200 N1901
W09840 - N1901 W09838 - N1842 W09826 - N1838
W09838 - N1901 W09840

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 23/1300Z NO VA EXP

RMK: CONS VA EMS OBSD IN WEBCAM FM SUNRISE TO ABT
1730Z WITH LKLY VA EMS CONTG. LGT VA EXTDS ABT 15
NMI SW OF SUMMIT ON VIS IMAGERY. NWP MDLS FCST VA
TO MOV S BY T+6 AND SSE BY T+12. ...HOSLEY

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20201023/0100Z

Previous news
Wed, 21 Oct 2020, 19:15
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS OBS IN STLT IMAGERY AND SUMMIT WEB CAM to 24000 ft (7300 m)
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 21 Oct 2020
Wed, 21 Oct 2020, 13:00
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EM OBSD to 19000 ft (5800 m)
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

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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