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Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: OCNL VA EMS. to 19000 ft (5800 m)

Mon, 15 Jul 2019, 17:45 | BY: VN
Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Washington warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 19000 ft (5800 m) altitude or flight level 190 .
The full report is as follows:

FVXX20 at 17:41 UTC, 15/07/19 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20190715/1739Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2019/557

INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. WEB CAM. NWP MODELS.
VOLCAT.

ERUPTION DETAILS: OCNL VA EMS.

OBS VA DTG: 15/1716Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL190 N1911 W09854 - N1901 W09837
- N1901 W09837 - N1907 W09857 - N1911 W09854 MOV
NW 15-20KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 15/2330Z SFC/FL190 N1911 W09911
- N1902 W09837 - N1901 W09837 - N1904 W09913 -
N1911 W09911

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 16/0530Z SFC/FL190 N1911
W09909 - N1902 W09837 - N1900 W09837 - N1903
W09911 - N1911 W09909

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 16/1130Z SFC/FL190 NO ASH EXP

RMK: DISCRETE VA EMS OCCURRING EVERY 1.5 TO 2.5
HRS. LATEST VA EM OBS IN G16 STLT IMAGERY 15 NM
WNW OF SUMMIT. NWP MDLS FCST FURTHER VA EMS TO
MOVE BTWN WNW AND W THRU T+12HRS. ...HOSLEY

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20190715/2345Z

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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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