Popocatepetl volcano news & eruption update
Popocatépetl volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS AT18/1220Z
FVXX22 at 15:27 UTC, 18/04/18 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20180418/1520Z
VAAC: WASHINGTON
VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837
AREA: MEXICO
SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]
ADVISORY NR: 2018/180
INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. NWP MODELS. VOLCANO WEB
CAMERA.
ERUPTION DETAILS: VA EMS AT18/1220Z
OBS VA DTG: 18/1512Z
OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL200 N1935 W09828 - N1924 W09810
- N1918 W09818 - N1925 W09831 - N1935 W09828 MOV
NE 5KT
FCST VA CLD +6HR: 18/2100Z SFC/FL200 NO ASH EXP
FCST VA CLD +12HR: 19/0300Z NO ASH EXP
FCST VA CLD +18HR: 19/0900Z NO ASH EXP
RMK: INITIAL VA EMS AT 18/1220 OBS MOV NE FROM
SUMMIT. VA CURRENTLY 25NMI NE OF SUMMIT. NWP
GUIDANCE SUGGEST CONT WINDS OUT OF THE SW.
...FISHER
NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20180418/2115Z
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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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