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Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EM OBSD

Mon, 20 Nov 2017, 17:15 17:15 PM |
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report:

FVXX20 at 17:06 UTC, 20/11/17 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20171120/1704Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2017/218

INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. NON-OPERATIONAL GOES-16.
MEXICO CITY MWO. NWP MODELS.

ERUPTION DETAILS: VA EM OBSD

OBS VA DTG: 20/1650Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL220 N1902 W09835 - N1859 W09818
- N1850 W09823 - N1859 W09836 - N1902 W09835 MOV
SE 15KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 20/2300Z SFC/FL220 NO ASH EXP

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 21/0500Z NO ASH EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 21/1100Z NO ASH EXP

RMK: NEW VA EM OBSD IN STLT AND WECAM. OBS RPRTS
VA EM MOV SE AT FL220 AT 15KTS. ...KIM

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20171120/2300Z

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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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