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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.

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Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update

Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: ONGOING LGT VA EMS to 19000 ft (5800 m)

Mon, 30 Nov 2020, 01:00
01:00 AM | BY: VN
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 30 Nov 2020
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 30 Nov 2020
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:

FVXX23 at 00:57 UTC, 30/11/20 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20201130/0053Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2020/996

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

ERUPTION DETAILS: ONGOING LGT VA EMS

OBS VA DTG: 30/0036Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL190 N1902 W09835 - N1848 W09825
- N1847 W09839 - N1901 W09835 - N1902 W09835 MOV
SE 10-15KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 30/0630Z SFC/FL190 N1902 W09835
- N1839 W09813 - N1832 W09835 - N1901 W09837 -
N1902 W09835

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 30/1230Z NO VA EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 30/1830Z NO VA EXP

RMK: LGT VA IS OBS MOV SSE UP TO 12NM FM THE
SUMMIT. WEB CAM SHOWS EM WITH LOW ASH CONTENT.
NWP MDL INDICATES A CONT SE MOV THRU T+6HRS.
...ZHU

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20201130/0700Z

Previous news
Sun, 29 Nov 2020, 13:45
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: OCNL VA EMS OBS IN VIS STLT IMAGERY AND SUMMIT WEB CAM to 22000 ft (6700 m)
Sun, 29 Nov 2020, 02:30
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NEW VA EMS to 22000 ft (6700 m)
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 29 Nov 2020
Sat, 28 Nov 2020, 04:45
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA NOT OBS IN SAT.
Fri, 27 Nov 2020, 19:00
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA DISP
Fri, 27 Nov 2020, 08:00
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: CONTG OCNL VA EMS. to 19000 ft (5800 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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