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

Tue, 24 Jan 2023, 11:45
11:45 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 and is moving at 15 kts in NE direction.
The full report is as follows:

FVXX21 at 11:38 UTC, 24/01/23 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20230124/1136Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17693 FT [5393 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2023/108

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

ERUPTION DETAILS: CONT VA EMS OBS

OBS VA DTG: 24/1116Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL210 N1956 W09817 - N1940 W09748
- N1902 W09837 - N1956 W09817 MOV NE 15KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 24/1730Z SFC/FL210 N1950 W09807
- N1929 W09739 - N1902 W09837 - N1950 W09807

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 24/2330Z SFC/FL210 N1946
W09752 - N1921 W09729 - N1903 W09836 - N1946
W09752

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 25/0530Z NO VA EXP

RMK: CONT VA EMS OBS MOV NE IN STLT IMAGERY. VA
FCST TO CONT NE MOV THRU T+12HRS BEFORE DISP. VO
ACT MODERATE. ...FISHER

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20230124/1730Z

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Tue, 24 Jan 2023, 01:00

Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: FQT VA EMS SEEN IN SAT to 21000 ft (6400 m)

Mon, 23 Jan 2023, 16:00

Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS CONT to 20000 ft (6100 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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