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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: ONGOING EMS

Wed, 30 Nov 2016, 21:00
21:00 PM |
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 30 Nov 2016
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 30 Nov 2016
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report:

FVXX21 at 20:49 UTC, 30/11/16 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20161130/2044Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL
341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426
M]

ADVISORY NR: 2016/252

INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. METAR. GFS WINDS.
ABBA.
SEISMIC DETECTION.

ERUPTION DETAILS: ONGOING EMS

OBS VA DTG:
30/2030Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL200 N1953 W09802 - N1934 W09749
- N1903
W09835 - N1907 W09838 - N1953 W09802 MOV
NE 15-20KT SFC/FL220 N2347
W09342 - N2216 W09217
- N2005 W09607 - N2027 W09616 - N2347 W09342
MOV
NE 25-30KT SFC/FL320 N2558 W09122 - N2458 W08958
- N2317 W09130 -
N2425 W09241 - N2426 W09240 -
N2558 W09122 MOV NE 40-45KT

FCST VA CLD
+6HR: 01/0230Z SFC/FL190 N1957 W09759
- N1934 W09746 - N1902 W09835 -
N1905 W09841 -
N1957 W09759 SFC/FL210 NO ASH EXP SFC/FL320 NO
ASH
EXP

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 01/0830Z SFC/FL190 N2013
W09746 - N1941
W09731 - N1903 W09836 - N1907
W09839 - N2013 W09746

FCST VA CLD +18HR:
01/1430Z SFC/FL190 N2013
W09745 - N1940 W09731 - N1901 W09837 -
N1905
W09840 - N2013 W09745

RMK: T+0 CONFIDENCE HIGH. VIS STLT IMAGERY
SHOWS
CONS EMS NE FROM SUMMIT. ALSO VA PLUMES FROM
EARLIER LARGER
ERUPTION REACH PERHAPS UP TO FL320
INTO THE CENTRAL GULF. ...LEE

NXT
ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20161201/0245Z

Previous news

Wed, 30 Nov 2016, 06:00
Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: ONGOING VA EM
Tue, 29 Nov 2016, 13:30
Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: ONGOING VA EMS.
Sun, 27 Nov 2016, 00:44
Popocatepetl volcano (Mexico): strong explosion generates 5 km ash plume
Beginning of the eruption of Popocatépetl volcano on 25 Nov 2016
An unusually long and strong explosion occurred on 25 Nov 2016 starting from 10:47 local time. A continuous jet of steam, gas, and fragmented volcanic material which lasted about 20 minutes generated a billowing plume that rose approx. 5 km. ... read all
Sat, 26 Nov 2016, 16:15
Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NEW EMS AT 26/1554Z
Fri, 25 Nov 2016, 16:15
Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: EXHALATION AT 25/1546Z.

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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