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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: LGT VA EMS OBS IN STLT IMAGERY to 19000 ft (5800 m)

Thu, 14 Jan 2021, 03:00
03:00 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 02:54 UTC, 14/01/21 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20210114/0251Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2021/058

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

ERUPTION DETAILS: LGT VA EMS OBS IN STLT IMAGERY

OBS VA DTG: 14/0236Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL190 N1916 W09826 - N1907 W09817
- N1859 W09835 - N1901 W09838 - N1916 W09826 MOV
NE 20KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 14/0830Z SFC/FL190 N1921 W09823
- N1905 W09809 - N1858 W09835 - N1902 W09838 -
N1921 W09823

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 14/1430Z NO VA EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 14/2030Z NO VA EXP

RMK: LGT VA EMS OBS IN STLT MOVG NE FM SUMMIT. WX
CLDS OBS N OF SUMMIT REGION IN STLT. VA DIR/HGT
FM STLT/NWP MDLS SHOWS CONT NE-LY MOVMT THRU T+6.
...SAMBUCCI

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20210114/0845Z

Previous news
Wed, 13 Jan 2021, 09:15
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA OBS IN SAT. to 19000 ft (5800 m)
Wed, 13 Jan 2021, 02:15
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA OBS IN SAT. to 19000 ft (5800 m)
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

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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