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Date and TimeMag
DepthDistanceLocationDetailsMap Nov 5, 03:38 pm (Mexico City)

4.2

124 km45 km (28 mi) to the N 35 km northeast of Matias Romero, Estado de Oaxaca, MexicoI FELT IT InfoNov 5, 09:34 am (Mexico City)

4.2

115 km37 km (23 mi) to the NW 2.5 km south of Matias Romero, Estado de Oaxaca, MexicoI FELT IT InfoNov 5, 06:36 am (Mexico City)

4.0

154 km84 km (52 mi) to the N 67 km south of Minatitlán, Estado de Veracruz-Llave, MexicoI FELT IT InfoNov 4, 05:41 pm (Mexico City)

4.1

93 km35 km (22 mi) to the W 28 km north of Juchitan de Zaragoza, Estado de Oaxaca, MexicoI FELT IT InfoNov 3, 10:08 am (Mexico City)

4.2

155 km93 km (58 mi) to the NE Estado de Veracruz-Llave, 64 km northwest of Cintalapa de Figueroa, MexicoI FELT IT InfoOct 28, 06:33 am (Mexico City)

4.3

98 km63 km (39 mi) to the NW 28 km west of Matias Romero, Estado de Oaxaca, Mexico InfoOct 14, 09:10 am (Mexico City)

4.3

101 km16 km (9.9 mi) to the NW 40 km northeast of Juchitan de Zaragoza, Estado de Oaxaca, Mexico InfoOct 11, 08:26 pm (Mexico City)

4.8

159 km96 km (60 mi) to the NE 14 km E of Niños Héroes, Mexico 6 reportsInfoSep 29, 09:56 pm (Mexico City)

4.5

113 km51 km (32 mi) to the E Estado de Oaxaca, 126 km west of Tuxtla, Estado de Chiapas, Mexico 3 reportsInfoSep 15, 06:36 am (Mexico City)

4.5

61 km9.9 km (6.2 mi) to the W 5 km S of Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico 1 reportInfoMar 5, 03:43

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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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