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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 VA EMS.

Sunday Dec 16, 2018 13:15 PM |

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

FVXX24 at 13:00 UTC, 16/12/18 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20181216/1259Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2018/578

INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. VOLCANO WEB CAMERA. NWP
MODELS. CIMSS VOLCAT.

ERUPTION DETAILS: ONGOING VA EMS.

OBS VA DTG: 16/1230Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL210 N1909 W09808 - N1846 W09811
- N1900 W09836 - N1907 W09832 - N1909 W09808 MOV
E 10-15KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 16/1830Z SFC/FL210 NO ASH EXP

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 17/0030Z NO ASH EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 17/0630Z NO ASH EXP

RMK: INTERMITTENT VA PUFFS CONTINUE. LATEST
SMALL PUFF SEEN IN WEBCAM AND VOLCAT IMAGERY. VA
MOV E. ...LEE

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20181216/1900Z

Previous news
Popocatepetl volcano (Mexico): strong explosion last evening
Eruption of Popocatepetl last evening (image: Webcams de Mexico / CENAPRED webcam)
Sunday, Dec 16, 2018
Another very strong explosion, similar to the one a week ago, occurred last night at 18:57 local time. ... [more]
Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: OCNL EM
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 15 Dec 2018
Saturday, Dec 15, 2018
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report: ... [more]
Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: DISCRETE VA EM
Saturday, Dec 15, 2018
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report: ... [more]
Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: ERUPTION AT 1707Z.
Thursday, Dec 13, 2018
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report: ... [more]
Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NEW VA EM
Tuesday, Dec 11, 2018
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report: ... [more]

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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