Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update
Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NEW VA EMS.
FVXX21 at 12:58 UTC, 07/03/18 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20180307/1255Z
VAAC: WASHINGTON
VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837
AREA: MEXICO
SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]
ADVISORY NR: 2018/139
INFO SOURCE: RADIOSONDE. CIMSS VOLCAT. ABBA.
VOLCANO WEB CAMERA.
ERUPTION DETAILS: NEW VA EMS.
OBS VA DTG: 07/1230Z
OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL220 N1923 W09826 - N1922 W09817
- N1912 W09820 - N1917 W09829 - N1923 W09826 MOV
NE 20-25KT
FCST VA CLD +6HR: 07/1830Z SFC/FL220 NO ASH EXP
FCST VA CLD +12HR: 08/0030Z NO ASH EXP
FCST VA CLD +18HR: 08/0630Z NO ASH EXP
RMK: VA EMS SEEN IN WEBCAM AND CONFIRMED IN
NOAA/CIMSS FALSE COLOR IMAGERY. ACT COINCIDES
WITH BRILLIANT HOTSPOT AT SUMMIT. VA MOV NE.
...LEE
NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20180307/1900Z
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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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