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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

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Date and TimeMag
DepthDistanceLocationDetailsMap Oct 12, 07:54 pm (GMT +8)

4.5

11 km59 km (36 mi) to the E Celebes Sea, 86 km southwest of Banga, PhilippinesI FELT IT InfoOct 8, 02:39 pm (GMT +8)

4.6

546 km100 km (62 mi) to the SW Celebes Sea, 212 km southwest of Koronadal, PhilippinesI FELT IT1 reportInfoOct 6, 01:56 pm (GMT +8)

4.4

565 km30 km (19 mi) to the NW 58 km WSW of Palimbang, Philippines InfoSep 27, 05:56 am (GMT +8)

4.1

611 km95 km (59 mi) to the N Celebes Sea, 67 km southwest of Cotabato, Philippines InfoSep 18, 08:41 pm (Manila)

4.3

470 km55 km (34 mi) to the NE Mindanao, Philippines InfoJun 12, 06:17 pm (GMT +8)

4.4

520 km25 km (16 mi) to the S 62 km SSW of Palimbang, Philippines InfoApr 20, 12:11 am (GMT +8)

5.9

12 km21 km (13 mi) to the E Celebes Sea, 90 km southwest of Surallah, Philippines 35 reportsInfoJul 11, 2024 10:13 am (GMT +8)

7.1

640 km89 km (55 mi) to the W Celebes Sea, Soccsksargen, 137 km southeast of Basilan Island, Philippines 54 reportsInfoAug 11, 2021 05:46 pm (GMT +0)

7.0

63 km313 km (194 mi) to the E Mindanao, Philippines 617 reportsInfoJan 10, 2017 02:13 pm (GMT +8)

7.2

633 km222 km (138 mi) to the SW Celebes Sea, 249 km southeast of Jolo, Philippines 35 reportsInfoDec 2, 2014 01:11 pm (Manila)

6.5

632 km92 km (57 mi) to the W Mindanao, Philippines 1 reportInfoSep 3, 2012 02:49 pm (Manila)

5.8

12 km76 km (47 mi) to the N 19 km WNW of Bantogon, Philippines InfoJul 24, 2010 01:35 pm (GMT +8)

6.6

553 km57 km (35 mi) to the

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