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Colima volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: ONGOING EMS

Sat, 24 Dec 2016, 15:30 |
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report:

FVXX20 at 15:27 UTC, 24/12/16 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20161224/1525Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: COLIMA
341040
PSN: N1930 W10337

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 12631 FT [3850
M]

ADVISORY NR: 2016/511

INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. NAM WINDS. VOLCANO
WEB
CAMERA.

ERUPTION DETAILS: ONGOING EMS

OBS VA DTG: 24/1445Z

OBS VA
CLD: SFC/FL170 N1956 W10344 - N1931 W10336
- N1929 W10338 - N1934
W10347 - N1955 W10349 -
N1956 W10344 MOV N 10-15KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR:
24/2100Z SFC/FL170 N2013 W10346
- N1931 W10336 - N1930 W10338 - N2011
W10406 -
N2013 W10346

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 25/0300Z SFC/FL170
N2014
W10358 - N2014 W10336 - N1931 W10336 - N1929
W10337 - N2014
W10358

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 25/0900Z

RMK: T+0 CONFIDENCE IS HIGH.
IMAGERY SHOWS VA
EXTENDING ABOUT 15 NMI N OF THE VOLCANO. NAM
WINDS
PLACES HEIGHT AT ABOUT FL170. ...SCHWARTZ

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE
ISSUED BY 20161224/2130Z

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Background:

Colima volcano is one of the most active in North America and one of the potentially most dangerous ones. It has had more than 30 periods of eruptions since 1585, including several significant eruptions in the late 1990s. Scientific monitoring of the volcano began 20 years ago. 

The Colima volcanic complex is the most prominent volcanic center of the western Mexican Volcanic Belt.  It consists of two southward-younging volcanoes, Nevado de Colima (the 4320 m high point of the complex) on the north and the 3850-m-high historically active Volcán de Colima at the south. 
A group of cinder cones of probable late-Pleistocene age is located on the floor of the Colima graben west and east of the Colima complex. Volcán de Colima (also known as Volcán Fuego) is a youthful stratovolcano constructed within a 5-km-wide caldera, breached to the south, that has been the source of large debris avalanches.  Major slope failures have occurred repeatedly from both the Nevado and Colima cones, and have produced a thick apron of debris-avalanche deposits on three sides of the complex.  Frequent historical eruptions date back to the 16th century.  Occasional major explosive eruptions (most recently in 1913) have destroyed the summit and left a deep, steep-sided crater that was slowly refilled and then overtopped by lava dome growth.
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Source: GVP, Smithsonian Institute - Colima information
In this photo released by the civil defense unit of the state government of Jalisco, the eruption plume from the initial stage of the powerful vulcanian explosion at Colima volcano on May 23, 2005, has been captured on film. The collapsing eruption column loaded with ash and rock fragments has not yet fully developed, but the flanks of the volcano are already covered by the impacts of ballistics. (AP Photo/Proteccion Civil del estado de Jalisco-HO)
In this photo released by the civil defense unit of the state government of Jalisco, the eruption plume from the initial stage of the powerful vulcanian explosion at Colima volcano on May 23, 2005, has been captured on film. The collapsing eruption column loaded with ash and rock fragments has not yet fully developed, but the flanks of the volcano are already covered by the impacts of ballistics. (AP Photo/Proteccion Civil del estado de Jalisco-HO)


Colima volcano
Stratovolcano 3850 m / 12,631 ft
Western Mexico, 19.51°N / -103.62°W
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
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Colima volcano eruptions:
1519, 1560, 1576, 1585, 1590, 1602(?), 1606, 1611-1613, 1622, 1690, 1711, 1743(?), 1744, 1749(?),1769, 1770, 1771, 1780, 1794, 1795, 1804, 1806-1809, 1818, 1819, 1866, 1869, 1870-71, 1872-73, 1874, 1875-78, 1879-80, 1880-81, 1882-84, 1885-1886, 1887, 1889-90, 1890, 1891-92, 1893-1902, 1903, 1904-1906, 1908-09, 1913, 1926-1931(?), 1941(?), 1957-1960, 1961-62, 1963-70, 1973(?), 1975-76, 1977-1982, 1983(?), 1985-86, 1987, 1988(?), 1991, 1994, 1997-2011, 2013-ongoing
Typical eruption style
Dominantly explosive. Construction of lava domes, vulcanian eruptions and strombolian activity. In near-constant activity since 1994.
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