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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.

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Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update

Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS HAS DISP

Sun, 21 Jul 2019, 12:15
12:15 PM | BY: VN
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report:

FVXX20 at 12:09 UTC, 21/07/19 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20190721/1208Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2019/587

INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. VOLCAT.

ERUPTION DETAILS: VA EMS HAS DISP

OBS VA DTG: 21/1201Z

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: VA EMS HAS DISP IN STLT IMAGERY. NO NEW EMS
OBS. NO RPRTS OF NEW EMS. ...FISHER

NXT ADVISORY: NO FURTHER ADVISORIES

Previous news
Sun, 21 Jul 2019, 01:15
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: OCNL EM to 20000 ft (6100 m)
Satellite image of Popocatépetl volcano on 21 Jul 2019
Sat, 20 Jul 2019, 13:45
Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: CONT NEW VA EMS to 23000 ft (7000 m)
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

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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