Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update
Вулкан Popocatépetl: Консультативный центр по вулканическому пеплу: VA HAS DSIPTD IN SAT.
FVXX22 at 08:34 UTC, 17/05/20 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20200517/0832Z
VAAC: WASHINGTON
VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837
AREA: MEXICO
SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]
ADVISORY NR: 2020/517
INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. WEB CAM.
ERUPTION DETAILS: VA HAS DSIPTD IN SAT.
OBS VA DTG: 17/0816Z
OBS VA CLD: NO ASH EXP
FCST VA CLD +6HR: 17/1430Z NO ASH EXP
FCST VA CLD +12HR: 17/2030Z NO ASH EXP
FCST VA CLD +18HR: 18/0230Z NO ASH EXP
RMK: VA HAS DSIPTD IN SAT. A HOTSPOT IS SEEN IN
S/W IMAGERY. FURTHER VA EM ARE PSBL BASED ON
RECENT ACT. ...KIBLER
NXT ADVISORY: NO FURTHER ADVISORIES
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Предыдущие новости
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
