Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NO NEW ACT

Fri, 7 Jul 2017, 15:45

15:45 PM |

Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report:

FVXX21 at 15:40 UTC, 07/07/17 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20170707/1538Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL
341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426
M]

ADVISORY NR: 2017/055

INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. EXPERIMENTAL
GOES-16.
VOLCANO WEB CAMERA.

ERUPTION DETAILS: NO NEW ACT

OBS VA DTG:
07/1515Z

OBS VA CLD: VA NOT IDENTIFIABLE FROM SATELLITE
DATA.

FCST VA
CLD +6HR: NO VA EXP

FCST VA CLD +12HR: NO VA EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: NO
VA EXP

RMK: THERE HAS BEEN NO NEW ACT SINCE THE PREVIOUS
EXHALATION.
...LEE

NXT ADVISORY: NO FURTHER ADVISORIES

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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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