Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update

Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: PSBL VA EMS to 20000 ft (6100 m)

Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Washington warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 20000 ft (6100 m) altitude or flight level 200 and is moving at 15 kts in W direction.
The full report is as follows:

FVXX22 at 04:52 UTC, 19/11/19 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20191119/0448Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2019/1103

INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. NWP MODELS. VOLCAT.

ERUPTION DETAILS: PSBL VA EMS

OBS VA DTG: 19/0420Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL200 N1902 W09837 - N1902 W09759
- N1849 W09803 - N1902 W09837 MOV W 15KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 19/1030Z SFC/FL200 NO ASH EXP

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 19/1630Z NO ASH EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 19/2230Z NO ASH EXP

RMK: VA NOT OBS IN STLT IMAGERY. PSBL VA EMS
REMAINS E OF SUMMIT FM EARLIER EMS. ...FISHER

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20191119/1045Z

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