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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: VA EMS OBS IN SUMMIT WEB CAM to 21000 ft (6400 m)

Thu, 3 Dec 2020, 22:45
22:45 PM | BY: VN
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 3 Dec 2020
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 3 Dec 2020
Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Washington warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 21000 ft (6400 m) altitude or flight level 210 .
The full report is as follows:

FVXX23 at 22:35 UTC, 03/12/20 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20201203/2232Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2020/1012

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

ERUPTION DETAILS: VA EMS OBS IN SUMMIT WEB CAM

OBS VA DTG: 03/2216Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL210 N1918 W09828 - N1905 W09819
- N1859 W09835 - N1902 W09838 - N1918 W09828 MOV
NE 25KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 04/0430Z SFC/FL210 N1926 W09823
- N1908 W09807 - N1858 W09835 - N1904 W09840 -
N1926 W09823

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 04/1030Z NO VA EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 04/1630Z NO VA EXP

RMK: OCNL VA EMS OBS IN SUMMIT WEB CAM AND STLT
MOVG NE FM SUMMIT. LOW CONF WITH VA EXT DUE TO WX
CLDS. VA HGT/DIR FM STLT/NWP SHOWS CONT NE-LY
MOVMT THRU T+6 ...SAMBUCCI

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20201204/0430Z

Previous news
Thu, 3 Dec 2020, 11:30
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: OCNL VA EMS. to 21000 ft (6400 m)
Thu, 3 Dec 2020, 05:30
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: INTMT DISCRETE VA EMS. to 20000 ft (6100 m)
Wed, 2 Dec 2020, 22:45
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS HAVE DISP IN STLT IMAGERY
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 2 Dec 2020
Wed, 2 Dec 2020, 11:15
Popocatépetl Volcano: sporadic emissions of volcanic ash
Wed, 2 Dec 2020, 02:30
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS HAVE DISP IN STLT IMAGERY

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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