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Popocatépetl Volcano: sporadic emissions of volcanic ash

Mon, 16 Aug 2021, 13:15 | BY: VN
Mild explosive activity continues from the volcano. The Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Washington reported intermittent emissions of volcanic ash plumes.
The full report is as follows: INTMT VA EMS..

FVXX22 at 13:09 UTC, 16/08/21 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20210816/1305Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2021/514

INFO SOURCE: GOES-16. WEBCAM. NWP MODELS. VOLCAT.
RADIOSONDE.

ERUPTION DETAILS: INTMT VA EMS.

OBS VA DTG: 16/1241Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL200 N1906 W09855 - N1904 W09839
- N1900 W09837 - N1859 W09853 - N1906 W09855 MOV
W 10KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 16/1830Z SFC/FL200 N1908 W09905
- N1904 W09837 - N1901 W09837 - N1853 W09902 -
N1908 W09905

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 17/0030Z SFC/FL200 N1910
W09907 - N1902 W09837 - N1900 W09837 - N1854
W09907 - N1910 W09907

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 17/0630Z NO VA EXP

RMK: DISCRETE VA EM OBSD BY STLT ARND 1130Z. CONS
BUT SML VA EMS OBSD IN WEBCAM FM 1233Z TO 1248Z.
VOLCAT ALERT RCVD. 12Z MMMX RADIOSONDE AND NWP
MDLS SUGGEST FL200 AND FCST LTLCG IN WINDS THRU
T+12HRS. ...HOSLEY

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20210816/1900Z

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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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