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Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: LGT VA EMS OBSD to 21000 ft (6400 m)

Sat, 19 Nov 2022, 04:00
04:00 AM | BY: VN
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:

FVXX21 at 03:51 UTC, 19/11/22 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20221119/0349Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17693 FT [5393 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2022/364

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

ERUPTION DETAILS: LGT VA EMS OBSD

OBS VA DTG: 19/0320Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL210 N1914 W09829 - N1908 W09823
- N1900 W09836 - N1901 W09838 - N1914 W09829 MOV
NE 10KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 19/0930Z SFC/FL210 N1923 W09831
- N1919 W09822 - N1900 W09837 - N1901 W09838 -
N1923 W09831

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 19/1530Z NO VA EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 19/2130Z NO VA EXP

RMK: LGT VA EMS OBSAD IN SAT AND WEBCAM. VA CLDS
MOVD NE FM SUMMIT EXTG ABT 15NMI. NWP MDL FCST
LTLCG THRU T+6HRS. ...ZENG

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20221119/0945Z

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Fri, 18 Nov 2022, 16:30

Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS CONT to 21000 ft (6400 m)

Fri, 18 Nov 2022, 04:45

Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS OBS to 22000 ft (6700 m)

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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


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.

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