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Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: DISCRETE VA EM to 22000 ft (6700 m)

Sat, 23 Nov 2019, 20:45 | BY: VN
Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Washington warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 22000 ft (6700 m) altitude or flight level 220 .
The full report is as follows:

FVXX23 at 20:36 UTC, 23/11/19 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20191123/2033Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: POPOCATEPETL 341090
PSN: N1901 W09837

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 17802 FT [5426 M]

ADVISORY NR: 2019/1124

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

ERUPTION DETAILS: DISCRETE VA EM

OBS VA DTG: 23/2016Z

OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL220 N1932 W09806 - N1920 W09758
- N1901 W09836 - N1904 W09837 - N1932 W09806 MOV
NE 10-15KT

FCST VA CLD +6HR: 24/0230Z SFC/FL220 N1933 W09805
- N1919 W09758 - N1902 W09836 - N1904 W09837 -
N1933 W09805

FCST VA CLD +12HR: 24/0830Z SFC/FL220 NO ASH EXP

FCST VA CLD +18HR: 24/1430Z NO ASH EXP

RMK: DISCRETE VA EM SEEN IN STLT EXT APRX 40 NM
FM SUMMIT. MODELS INDICATE VA EM TO CONT MVG NE
THRU FCST. ...CLARK

NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20191124/0230Z

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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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