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Popocatépetl volcano Stratovolcano 5426 m / 17,802 ft Central Mexico, 19.02°N / -98.62°W Current status: erupción (4 out of 5) Popocatépetl webcams / datos en tiempo real | Reports Popocatépetl volcano videos Popocatépetl volcano books | Tours +− 500 km 500 mi Leaflet | © OpenStreetMap contributors [Ocultar mapa] [ampliar] Last update: 20 Apr 2019 (degassions, small to moderate steam/ash emissions) Typical eruption style: Dominantemente explosiva, construcción de domos de lava. Erupciones plinianas a intervalos de varios siglos o pocos miles de años, registró y actividad estromboliana en fases intermitentes. Erupciones del volcán Popocatépetl: 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 Últimos terremotos cercanos: No hay terremotos recientes Fecha / Hora Revista / Profundidad Distancia Ubicación Send Volcano Report Popocatepetl is one of Mexico's most active volcanoes. After almost 50 years of dormancy, "Popo" came back to life in 1994 and has since then been producing powerful explosions at irregular intervals. In the past centuries befor European invasions, large eruptions produced giant mud flows that have buried Atzteque settlements, even entire pyramids. 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. --- Source: GVP, Smithsonian Institution - Popocatepetl information Popocatépetl Fotos: Popocatepetl is one of Mexico's most active volcanoes and also part of an Aztec legend, a warrior who fell in love with a young woman (Iztaccihuatl) who died while he was... Volcano Tecajete, Popocatepetl in clouds (background), view from San Pedro Cholula , Mexico (Photo: WNomad) más fotos Latest satellite images Popocatepetl and Iztaccíhuatl Photo from the International Space Station showing a pair of volcanoes in Mexico: active Popocatepetl (left) and extinct Iztaccíhuatl.(right). This 2003 photo from the International Space Station shows a pair of volcanoes in Mexico. As part of the “Ring of Fire” stretching around the Pacific, Mexico hosts several of the world’s most continually active volcanoes, including the massive Popocatepetl (Aztec for "smoking mountain") at left. The neighboring volcano is Iztaccíhuatl (the "Woman in White"). The faint plume emanating from Popocatepetl’s summit crater shows the ever-present hazard the volcano represents to the 25 million people living in the region, including the nearby city of Amecameca, as well as the metropolitan centers of Mexico City to the northwest and Puebla to the east. Credit: NASA arriba   Más en VolcanoDiscovery: Books Books about volcanoes: A selection of recommended books about volcanoes and volcanism. Sakurajima videos Hawai'i Hawai'i and Kilauea volcano photos: Lava flows, lava lakes, eruptions and aerial images from Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawai'i throughout the years. Eyjafjallajökull Eyjafjallajökull volcano photos: The volcano in Iceland with the unpronounceable name... but famous in 2010 when its ash clouds drifted over Europe and forced a unprecedented large-scale airspace closure for several days, stranding millions of passengers. Why is there advertising on this site?

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