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Wed, 7 May 2025, 14:00 | BY: VN

The Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica-Universidad Nacional (OVSICORI-UNA) reported continuous gas-and-steam emissions, ash-and-gas emissions sometimes lasting hours, and explosions at Poás during 30 April-6 May. Inflation continued to be detected. Seismic and infrasound sensors recorded seismic-acoustic signals indicating fluctuating eruptive activity with frequent more intense eruptive pulses.
The webcams recorded the emissions and incandescence at the vents.

During 29-30 April ash-and-gas plumes rose a few hundred meters above the crater rim and drifted SW, causing significant ashfall in the Sarchi area (18 km SW). The density of the ash content was higher in the morning and early afternoon on 30 April. Around 0300 on 1 May a team conducted a drone overflight and measured a temperature of 180 degrees Celsius, indicating no lava near the surface.

A more intense eruptive pulse at 0315 sent ash-and-gas 500

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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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