Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update
Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: ERUPTION ARND 21/1600Z
FVXX22 at 16:58 UTC, 21/08/17 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20170821/1656Z
VAAC: WASHINGTON
VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837
AREA: MEXICO
SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]
ADVISORY NR: 2017/073
INFO SOURCE: NON-OPERATIONAL GOES-16. MEXICO CITY
MWO. NWP MODELS. VOLCANO WEB CAMERA.
ERUPTION DETAILS: ERUPTION ARND 21/1600Z
OBS VA DTG: 21/1630Z
OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL250 N1909 W09848 - N1901 W09836
- N1859 W09837 - N1855 W09851 - N1903 W09852 -
N1909 W09848 MOV W 15KT
FCST VA CLD +6HR: 21/2230Z SFC/FL250 N1902 W09905
- N1851 W09903 - N1847 W09916 - N1859 W09917 -
N1902 W09905
FCST VA CLD +12HR: 22/0430Z SFC/FL250 NO ASH EXP
FCST VA CLD +18HR: 22/1030Z NO ASH EXP
RMK: DISCRETE VA EM OBS IN STLT MOVG W FM SUMMIT
AT 15KTS NEAR FL250. ASH EXTDS 18NMI FM SUMMIT
THRU 1630Z. VA FCSTD TO DISP BY T+12HRS.
...RAMIREZ
NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20170821/2300Z
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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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