Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update
Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: DISCRETE VA EMS.
FVXX22 at 07:18 UTC, 01/03/18 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20180301/0716Z
VAAC: WASHINGTON
VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL
341090
PSN: N1901 W09837
AREA: MEXICO
SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426
M]
ADVISORY NR: 2018/115
INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. NWP MODELS. CIMSS
VOLCAT.
ERUPTION DETAILS: DISCRETE VA EMS.
OBS VA DTG: 01/0602Z
OBS VA
CLD: SFC/FL200 N1942 W09826 - N1859 W09835
- N1900 W09838 - N1942
W09837 - N1942 W09826 MOV
N 30KT
FCST VA CLD +6HR: 01/1200Z SFC/FL200
N1956 W09823
- N1859 W09835 - N1859 W09838 - N1956 W09842 -
N1956
W09823
FCST VA CLD +12HR: 01/1800Z SFC/FL200 NO ASH EXP
FCST VA CLD
+18HR: 02/0000Z NO ASH EXP
RMK: TWO DISCRETE VA EMS OBS IN STLT
IMAGERY
BEGINNING ARND 0445Z AND 0515Z, AND MOVING N FM
SUMMIT AT
30KNT. VA EXTD FOR 50NM THRU 0630Z
...BOLL
NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED
BY 20180301/1315Z
- О НОВОСТИ ВСЕ: Popocatépetl вулкан
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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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