Ricardo Aguilar
A journey to the Mexican Volcano “the Popocatepetl”
The Popocatepetl is a Mexican volcano that in recent time registered a strong explosion, this is a volcano that has been active for at least 25 years in modern time. After a long period, quietness in which no major explosions were recorded. It was on 2999 B.C this according to a detailed record of the activity of the Popocatepetl of the general coordination of civil protection of the State of Puebla Mexico. The records indicated that for that year there were “lava fluids”
And it was until the 16th century that eruptive sequences were recorded, however the damaged caused by this volcano on that time is unknown.
However, in the first half of this century there was less activity and there has been talks of some victims inside the crater when mining sulfuric acid. This according to a document of the civil protection department of the city of Puebla Mexico. consequently in 1994 could be called the year of the Popocatepetl awakening, due to an increased activity on that year, also it was in that year that for the first time on the history an evacuation of nearly 50,000 people took place due to this volcano’s activity, another 30,000 had to be sheltered for six hours due to the increased activity of the volcano as well, this according to such civil department report.
from the time of the eruption recorded above lines there was a period of “relative calm”, according to the civil protection such volcanic inactivity would be interrupted in the year 2000 when the larges eruption on terms of energy release occurred, by then fortunately a preventive evacuation had been ordered. In such event a total of 14,000 people from diverse towns around the volcano needed to be evacuated. The year 2000 would be the last time that large activity has been recorded in this volcano located between the states of Morelos Mexico and Puebla Mexico. since then, only until the year 2017 there has been several episodes of volcanic ash expulsion and the volcano as launched incandescent fragments to a bout 900 meters from the edge of the crater. until now no further regarding a serious dangerous activities information has been recorded on the volcano.
Picture source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl#/media/File:PopoAmeca2zoom.jpg
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