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Satellite images of Popocatepetl volcano (c)Google Earth View
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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.

Popocatépetl volcano tours:
Popocatépetl Volcano Special (tour to see the ongoing eruption of Mexico's most active volcano)

Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update

Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: CONT NEW VA EMS to 23000 ft (7000 m)

Sat, 20 Jul 2019, 13:45
13:45 PM | BY: VN
Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Washington warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 23000 ft (7000 m) altitude or flight level 230 and is moving at 10 kts in N direction.
The full report is as follows:

FVXX20 at 13:30 UTC, 20/07/19 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20190720/1327Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2019/582

INFO SOURCE: GOES-WEST. MEXICO CITY MWO. NWP
MODELS. VOLCAT.

ERUPTION DETAILS: CONT NEW VA EMS

OBS VA DTG: 20/1300Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL230 N1937 W09844 - N1902 W09838
- N1932 W09907 - N1937 W09844 MOV N 10KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 20/1900Z SFC/FL230 N1937 W09844
- N1902 W09837 - N1933 W09907 - N1937 W09844

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 21/0100Z SFC/FL230 NO ASH EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 21/0700Z NO ASH EXP

RMK: CONT NEW VA EMS OBS MOV NNW TO NW EXT TO
NEAR 50NM FM SUMMIT IN STLT IMAGERY. VA FCST TO
CONT NW MOV THRU T+6HRS. CONT ACT PSBL. ...FISHER

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20190720/1930Z

Previous news
Sat, 20 Jul 2019, 06:15
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: POSS VA EM 20/0556
Fri, 19 Jul 2019, 20:45
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA NOT SEEN IN STLT
Fri, 19 Jul 2019, 12:45
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS HAS DISP
Fri, 19 Jul 2019, 05:00
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: POSS VA EM 19/0416Z
Thu, 18 Jul 2019, 22:45
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NO VA OBS IN STLT.
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 18 Jul 2019

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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