Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update
Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NEW VA EM OBSD
FVXX23 at 07:48 UTC, 14/03/18 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20180314/0746Z
VAAC: WASHINGTON
VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL
341090
PSN: N1901 W09837
AREA: MEXICO
SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426
M]
ADVISORY NR: 2018/147
INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. NWP MODELS. CIMSS
VOLCAT.
VOLCANO WEB CAMERA.
ERUPTION DETAILS: NEW VA EM OBSD
OBS VA
DTG: 14/0700Z
OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL210 N1849 W09829 - N1849 W09821
- N1841
W09820 - N1841 W09829 - N1849 W09829 MOV
SE 10KT
FCST VA CLD +6HR:
14/1300Z SFC/FL210 NO ASH EXP
FCST VA CLD +12HR: 14/1900Z NO ASH
EXP
FCST VA CLD +18HR: 15/0100Z NO ASH EXP
RMK: DISCRETE VA SEEN MOV SE
APPROX 20 NM AWAY FM
THE SUMMIT. VA EXPCTD TO DISP WI 6 HRS.
...KIM
NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20180314/1345Z
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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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