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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 LKLY CONTG. to 20000 ft (6100 m)

Tue, 5 Jan 2021, 00:15
00:15 AM | 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:

FVXX21 at 23:59 UTC, 04/01/21 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20210104/2356Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2021/016

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

ERUPTION DETAILS: VA EMS LKLY CONTG.

OBS VA DTG: 04/2346Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL200 N1901 W09837 - N1855 W09825
- N1849 W09831 - N1859 W09837 - N1901 W09837 MOV
SE 15KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 05/0600Z SFC/FL200 N1914 W09817
- N1853 W09815 - N1858 W09837 - N1901 W09838 -
N1914 W09817

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 05/1200Z SFC/FL200 N1902
W09811 - N1851 W09812 - N1859 W09837 - N1901
W09837 - N1902 W09811

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 05/1800Z NO VA EXP

RMK: VA PSBLY OBSD MOVG SSE OF SUMMIT. WX CLD CVR
OBSC SUMMIT IN BOTH STLT AND WEBCAM IMAGERY. NWP
MDLS SUGGEST VA TO FL200. NWP MDLS FCST VA TO MOV
ENE BY T+6 AND E BY T+12. ...HOSLEY

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20210105/0600Z

Previous news
Mon, 4 Jan 2021, 18:15
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: CONS EM to 19000 ft (5800 m)
Mon, 4 Jan 2021, 12:15
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: FQT EM to 22000 ft (6700 m)
Mon, 4 Jan 2021, 00:15
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: CONS VA EMS. to 20000 ft (6100 m)
Sun, 3 Jan 2021, 12:30
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: OCNL EM to 25000 ft (7600 m)
Sun, 3 Jan 2021, 01:00
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: CONS VA AND GAS EMS SEEN IN STLT. 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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