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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 OBS IN SAT. to 19000 ft (5800 m)

Wed, 13 Jan 2021, 02:15
02:15 AM | BY: VN
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:

FVXX21 at 02:04 UTC, 13/01/21 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20210113/0203Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2021/054

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

ERUPTION DETAILS: VA OBS IN SAT.

OBS VA DTG: 13/0151Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL190 N1908 W09818 - N1900 W09817
- N1859 W09837 - N1902 W09837 - N1908 W09818 MOV
E 30KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 13/0800Z SFC/FL190 N1913 W09759
- N1901 W09758 - N1859 W09837 - N1903 W09837 -
N1913 W09759

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 13/1400Z NO VA EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 13/2000Z NO VA EXP

RMK: VOLCAT ALERT RECEIVED FOR VA EM EXT 15 NM E
FM SUMMIT. VA ALSO OBS IN SAT AND WEBCAM IMAGERY.
OBS VA FL ESTD FM NWP MDLS. LTLCG EXP IN FL WINDS
THRU T+6 HRS. ...CLARK

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20210113/0800Z

Previous news
Tue, 12 Jan 2021, 08:22
Popocatépetl volcano (Mexico): elevated tremor
Vulcanic explosion from Popocatépetl volcano on 7 January (image: CENAPRED)
Over the past weeks, the activity of the volcano has remained essentially unchanged at moderate levels. ... read all
Tue, 12 Jan 2021, 07:30
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA NOT OBS IN SAT.
Mon, 11 Jan 2021, 20:15
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS HAVE DISP IN STLT IMAGERY
Mon, 11 Jan 2021, 08:30
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EM MOV NE to 21000 ft (6400 m)
Mon, 11 Jan 2021, 01:30
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: RESIDUAL VA 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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