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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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Popocatépetl Volcano Special (tour to see the ongoing eruption of Mexico's most active volcano)

Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update

Popocatépetl Volcano: sporadic emissions of volcanic ash

Wed, 2 Dec 2020, 11:15
11:15 AM | BY: VN
Mild explosive activity continues from the volcano. The Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Washington reported intermittent emissions of volcanic ash plumes.
The full report is as follows: INTMT VA EMS..

FVXX23 at 11:12 UTC, 02/12/20 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20201202/1107Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2020/1006

INFO SOURCE: GOES-16. WEBCAM. NWP MODELS.

ERUPTION DETAILS: INTMT VA EMS.

OBS VA DTG: 02/1051Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL200 N1911 W09813 - N1903 W09810
- N1858 W09838 - N1901 W09839 - N1911 W09813 MOV
E 25-30KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 02/1700Z SFC/FL200 N1910 W09808
- N1856 W09807 - N1857 W09838 - N1901 W09839 -
N1910 W09808

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 02/2300Z NO VA EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 03/0500Z NO VA EXP

RMK: VA EMS PSBLY OBSD BY STLT MOVG ENE. VA EMS
OBSD IN WEBCAM AT 0814Z AND 0851Z. LGT VA EM
PSBLY OBSD AT 0954Z IN WEBCAM AS WELL. NWP MDLS
FCST VA TO MOV NEAR DUE E BY T+6HRS. ...HOSLEY

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20201202/1700Z

Previous news
Wed, 2 Dec 2020, 02:30
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS HAVE DISP IN STLT IMAGERY
Tue, 1 Dec 2020, 16:30
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NEW VA EMS to 20000 ft (6100 m)
Tue, 1 Dec 2020, 02:15
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: DISCRETE VA EM. to 20000 ft (6100 m)
Mon, 30 Nov 2020, 11:30
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NEW VA EMS to 20000 ft (6100 m)
Mon, 30 Nov 2020, 01:00
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: ONGOING LGT VA EMS to 19000 ft (5800 m)
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 30 Nov 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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