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Colima volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NEW VA EM OBS AT 1045Z

Sun, 8 Jan 2017, 14:00 |
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report:

FVXX21 at 13:46 UTC, 08/01/17 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20170108/1344Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: COLIMA
341040
PSN: N1931 W10337

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 12631 FT [3850
M]

ADVISORY NR: 2017/042

INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. MEXICO CITY MWO.
GFS
WINDS. NAM WINDS.

ERUPTION DETAILS: NEW VA EM OBS AT 1045Z

OBS VA
DTG: 08/1315Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL200 N1931 W10338 - N1927 W10332
- N1722
W10330 - N1740 W10403 - N1859 W10404 -
N1931 W10338 MOV S 20KT

FCST VA
CLD +6HR: 08/1930Z SFC/FL200 N1834 W10408
- N1829 W10327 - N1558
W10335 - N1603 W10441 -
N1834 W10408

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 09/0130Z
SFC/FL200 NO ASH EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 09/0730Z NO ASH EXP

RMK: T+0
CONFIDENCE HIGH. VA OBS IN STLT IMAGERY
MOVG S FM SUMMIT AT 20KTS.
ESTIMATED FL200. VA
EDGE EXTDS FOR 125 NMI THRU 1315Z. ASH IS
BECOMING
DFUS WITH INCR DIST AND FCTSTD TO DISP
BY T+12HRS. ...RAMIREZ

NXT
ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20170108/1945Z

Previous news

Sat, 7 Jan 2017, 22:45

Colima volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS ARND 07/2200Z.

Satellite image of Colima volcano on 7 Jan 2017
Sat, 7 Jan 2017, 03:45

Colima volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: DISCRETE VA EM

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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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