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Time2025-08-11 21:12:06 UTC2025-08-11 21:12:06 UTC at epicenterLocation51.633°N 159.684°EDepth10.00 km (6.21 mi)
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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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Tue, 12 Aug 2025, 00:24 | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR
Worldwide earthquakes above magnitude 3 during the past 24 hours on 12 Aug 2025
Summary: 6 quakes 5.0+, 78 quakes 4.0+, 208 quakes 3.0+, 647 quakes 2.0+ (939 total)
Magnitude 5+: 6 earthquakes
Magnitude 4+: 78 earthquakes
Magnitude 3+: 208 earthquakes
Magnitude 2+: 647 earthquakes
No quakes of magnitude 6 or higherTotal seismic energy estimate: 7.3 x 1013 joules (20.3 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 17463 tons of TNT or 1.1 atomic bombs!) | equivalent to ONE quake of magnitude 6.0 learn more10 largest earthquakes in the world (11 Aug 2025)#1: Mag 5.8 North Pacific Ocean, 250 km southwest of Tuxtla, Estado de Chiapas, MexicoSunday, Aug 10, 2025, at 08:21 pm (GMT -6) – #2: Mag 5.2 North Pacific Ocean, 186 km southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, RussiaMonday, Aug 11, 2025, at 11:05 pm (GMT +11) – #3: Mag 5.1 North Pacific Ocean, 75 km southeast of Severo-Kuril’sk, Sakhalin Oblast, RussiaTuesday, Aug 12, 2025, at 04:25 am (GMT +11) – #4: Mag 5.1 South Pacific Ocean, 352 km north of Tofua Island, Ha’apai, TongaMonday, Aug 11, 2025, at 07:37 pm (GMT +13) – #5: Mag 5.0 North Pacific Ocean, 175 km southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, RussiaTuesday, Aug 12, 2025, at 08:02 am (GMT +11) – #6: Mag 5.0 South Pacific Ocean, 93 km northwest of Copiapo, Copiapo, Region de Atacama, ChileMonday, Aug 11,
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<!–div style="font-size:14px;text-align:center;border:3px solid blue;border-radius:5px;padding:3px;margin:5px;background:#eee"><a href="https://www.volcanoesandearthquakes.com/app/volcano-report.php?volcanoId=28" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="Share a volcano (activity) report, submit a photo or other interesting news!” onclick=”window.open(this.href,’Volcano Report’,’status=0,toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,menubar=0,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,height=500,width=450′);return false”>Send Volcano Report</div–> Stratovolcano 4835 m (15,863 ft)
Kamchatka, 56.06°N / 160.64°E
Current status: erupting (4 out of 5) Klyuchevskoy volcano eruptions:
1697-98, 1720-21, 1727-31, 1737, 1740, 1762, 1767, 1770, 1772, 1785, 1787, 1788, 1789-90, 1791, 1807, 1812, 1813, 1819-22, 1829, 1840, 1848, 1852, 1853-54, 1865, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1882, 1883, 1890, 1896-97, 1890, 1896-97, 1898, 1904, 1907, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1935-36, 1937-39, 1944-1945, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960-63, 1963-64, 1965-1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1971-73, 1974, 1977-80, 1981, 1982, 1982-83, 1984-85, 1986, 1986-90, 1991, 1992, 1992-93, 1994-95, 1996-97, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2002-04, 2005 – ongoing
Typical eruption style
Dominantly explosive, strombolian and vulcanian activity, sometimes lava
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