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Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EM BEGINNING 1300Z to 20000 ft (6100 m)

Tue, 13 Oct 2020, 14:00 | BY: VN
Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Washington warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 20000 ft (6100 m) altitude or flight level 200 .
The full report is as follows:

FVXX22 at 13:51 UTC, 13/10/20 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20201013/1350Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2020/902

INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. MEXICO CITY MWO. WEB CAM.
NWP MODELS.

ERUPTION DETAILS: VA EM BEGINNING 1300Z

OBS VA DTG: 13/1341Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL200 N1913 W09851 - N1903 W09838
- N1901 W09838 - N1909 W09854 - N1913 W09851 MOV
NW 15-20KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 13/1930Z SFC/FL200 N1944 W09937
- N1902 W09837 - N1859 W09838 - N1935 W09950 -
N1944 W09937

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 14/0130Z NO VA EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 14/0730Z NO VA EXP

RMK: VA EM THAT BEGAN AT 1300Z HAVE RESULTED IN A
PLUME EXT 8 NM NW OF THE SUMMIT. LTLCG EXP THRU
T+6 BASED ON NWP MODEL GUIDANCE. ...TURK

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20201013/1945Z

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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


Satellite images of Popocatepetl volcano (c)Google Earth View
Satellite images of Popocatepetl volcano (c)Google Earth View
Stratovolcano 5426 m / 17,802 ft
Central Mexico, 19.02°N / -98.62°W
Current status: erupting (4 out of 5) Popocatépetl volcano eruptions:
1345-47, 1354, 1363(?), 1488, 1504, 1509(?), 1512, 1518, 1519-23(?), 1528, 1530, 1539-40, 1542, 1548, 1571, 1580, 1590, 1592-94, 1642, 1663-65, 1666-67, 1697, 1720, 1802-04, 1827(?), 1834(?), 1852(?), 1919-22, 1923-24, 1925-27(?), 1933, 1942-43, 1947, 1994-95, 1996-2003, 2004-ongoing
Typical eruption style
Dominantly explosive, construction of lava domes. Plinian eruptions at intervals of several centuries or few thousands of years, vulcanian and strombolian activity in intermittent phases.
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