Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update
Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NEW EMS AT 26/1554Z
FVXX21 at 16:04 UTC, 26/11/16 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20161126/1603Z
VAAC: WASHINGTON
VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL
341090
PSN: N1901 W09837
AREA: MEXICO
SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426
M]
ADVISORY NR: 2016/241
INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. MEXICO CITY MWO.
NAM
WINDS.
ERUPTION DETAILS: NEW EMS AT 26/1554Z
OBS VA DTG:
26/1554Z
OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL210 N1901 W09838 - N1859 W09837
- N1856
W09841 - N1859 W09843 - N1901 W09838 MOV
SW 5-10KT
FCST VA CLD +6HR:
26/2200Z SFC/FL210 NO ASH EXP
FCST VA CLD +12HR: 27/0400Z NO ASH
EXP
FCST VA CLD +18HR: 27/1000Z NO ASH EXP
RMK: MEXICO CITY MWO REPORTS
NEW EMS OF VA AT
26/1554Z TO FL210 MOVING SW. PREVIOUS EMS
HAS
DISSIPATED. ...SCHWARTZ
NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY
20161126/2200Z
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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
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