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Satellite images of Popocatepetl volcano (c)Google Earth View
Satellite images of Popocatepetl volcano (c)Google Earth View
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.

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

Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update

Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS HAVE DISP IN STLT IMAGERY

Thu, 18 Feb 2021, 02:45
02:45 AM | BY: VN
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report:

FVXX21 at 02:33 UTC, 18/02/21 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20210218/0230Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2021/189

INFO SOURCE: GOES-16. WEBCAM.

ERUPTION DETAILS: VA EMS HAVE DISP IN STLT IMAGERY

OBS VA DTG: 18/0216Z

OBS VA CLD: VA NOT IDENTIFIABLE FM STLT DATA

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 18/0830Z NO VA EXP

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 18/1430Z NO VA EXP

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

RMK: EARLIER VA EMS OBS IN STLT AND SUMMIT WEBCAM
HAVE DISP. NO NEW VA RPRTS AND OBS RECEIVED FM
MWO. STEAM/GAS EMS OBS IN SUMMIT WEBCAM. VA EVENT
ENDED. ...SAMBUCCI

NXT ADVISORY: NO FURTHER ADVISORIES

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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