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Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: CONTG VA EMS.

Wed, 6 Jan 2021, 11:00 | BY: VN
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report:

FVXX21 at 10:45 UTC, 06/01/21 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20210106/1044Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2021/024

INFO SOURCE: GOES-16. NWP MODELS.

ERUPTION DETAILS: CONTG VA EMS.

OBS VA DTG: 06/1036Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL N1903 W09838 - N1859 W09740 -
N1837 W09801 - N1859 W09838 - N1903 W09838 MOV SE
15KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 06/1630Z SFC/FL200 N1904 W09837
- N1852 W09731 - N1832 W09751 - N1901 W09840 -
N1904 W09837

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 06/2230Z SFC/FL200 N1903
W09838 - N1858 W09727 - N1836 W09744 - N1900
W09839 - N1903 W09838

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 07/0430Z SFC/FL200 N1916
W09728 - N1850 W09732 - N1900 W09839 - N1904
W09838 - N1916 W09728

RMK: VA CLD OBS EXT UP TO 50 NM E AND ESE OF
SUMMIT. FL MVMT EXP TO PERSIST THRU T+12, THEN
TURN TO E BY T+18 HRS. OBS FL ESTD FM NWP MDLS.
...CLARK

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20210106/1645Z

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Wed, 6 Jan 2021, 06:00

Popocatepetl volcano (Mexico) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 6 January-12 January 2021 (Continuing Activity)

CENAPRED reported that each day during 5-12 January there were 11-31 steam, gas, and ash emissions from Popocatépetl. Minor ashfall was reported in several municipalities in Puebla including San Salvador el Verde (30 km NNE), Atlixco (23 km SE), San Andrés Cholula (35 km E), San Nicolás de los Ranchos (15 km ENE), and Domingo Arenas. The Alert Level remained at Yellow, Phase Two (middle level on a three-color scale). ... Read all
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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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