Status:
Yellow, Phase 3.
- Webcams de Mexico has live webcams, which are free but not embeddable
- Current CENAPRED report (Spanish).
- Hazard map (Spanish)
- Washington VAAC page.
- Puebla Civil Protection (Twitter)
- Mexico City Secretaría de Gestión Integral de Riesgos y PC (Twitter)
- GVP page.
Good morning, Popocatépetl!
🌋Volcán #Popocatépetl
Durante la noche persistió el registro de tremor de baja amplitud y en ocasiones fueron expulsados fragmentos incandescentes a cortas distancias del cráter.
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🚦#AmarilloFase3 @laualzua pic.twitter.com/bHXlSexd44— Coordinación Nacional de Protección Civil (@CNPC_MX) May 27, 2023
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Update, May 27, 2023, 10:01 a.m., Pacific: Late yesterday afternoon, CENAPRED posted an update, noting that Don Goyo’s signs and symptoms had decreased a bit, but they kept the alert at YELLOW 3.
Some more drone flights occurred yesterday, too.
This morning on the cams, Popo is still huffing and puffing, but at the same lower level.
There is an ash advisory in place, but covering less area:
And CENAPRED reports this morning (via Google Translate):
…From the analysis of the images taken in an overflight of the Popocatépetl volcano by the Secretary of the Navy carried out on the morning of May 26, the presence of a lava dome was not observed, but it was appreciated that the main crater has been significantly filled by emitted fragmented magmatic material. Likewise, the activity during the past four days has consisted of the emission of ash and incandescent fragments associated with the tremor record of fluctuating duration and amplitude.
Within the framework of the permanent session of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Civil Protection System for the Popocatépetl volcano, the Scientific Advisory Committee (CCA) of the National Civil Protection System (SINAPROC) for the Popocatépetl volcano, made up of specialists from the National University Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), University of Colima (UC) and CENAPRED, held its extraordinary meeting number 81 (permanent session) on May 26, to evaluate the recent behavior of the volcano, accompanied by a representative of the National Coordination of Civil protection.
It was concluded that the most probable scenario in the short term is that an activity similar to the one that has occurred recently continues, characterized by the occurrence of high-frequency tremors and variable amplitude; some small to moderate and occasionally large explosions, and ash emissions that possibly reach more distant populations than already observed, as well as the expulsion of incandescent fragments within the 12 kilometer exclusion radius.
The Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Civil Protection System for the Popocatépetl volcano will remain in permanent session.
The Scientific Advisory Committee (CCA) of the National Civil Protection System (Sinaproc) for the Popocatépetl volcano is made up of specialists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the University of Colima (UC) and CENAPRED.
The Volcanic Alert Traffic Light remains YELLOW PHASE 3.
The scenarios foreseen for this phase are:
1. Potential for significant explosive activity of increasing intensity that hurls fragments considerable distances.
2. Notorious ash rains over towns and cities.
3. Possibility of pyroclastic flows and mudflows of greater volume and scope, but without reaching inhabited areas.
4. Important growth of domes and possibility of expulsion of magma…
We’ll see how things go.
Earlier posts:
Featured image Popocatépetl in early 2019, by Puebla Civil Protection (Spanish)
Flight To Wonder 