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Popocatepetl seen from UNAM (instituto de Ecologia with Sigma 500 mm), Mexico City. The name Popocatépetl comes from the Nahuatl words popōca (Nahuatl pronunciation:) "it smokes" and tepētl [ˈtepeːt͡ɬ] "mountain", meaning Smoking Mountain. The volcano is also referred to by Mexicans as El Popo affectionately, or to shorten the full name.
Notable volcanoes in Mexico include Popocatépetl, one of the country's most active and dangerous volcanoes, Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltépetl), the highest peak in Mexico, and Parícutin, a cinder cone volcano that famously emerged from a cornfield in 1943. Mexican volcanoes play a significant role in the country's geography, climate, and culture ...
2000 4 Mount Tavurvur [2] Papua New Guinea 1994 5 Tavurvur, and nearby Vulcan, erupted and devastated Rabaul; however, due to planning for such a catastrophe, the townsfolk were prepared and only five people were killed. One of the deaths was caused by lightning, a feature of volcanic ash clouds. [3] 4 Láscar [4] Chile 1993 4 Mount Spurr [5]
The volcano was inactive for decades before an eruption in 1994. In 2000, a major eruption prompted the evacuation of about 50,000 people in the region. Since then, mild to moderate activity has ...
The volcano was dormant for about half of last century, but rumbled back to life with a series of relatively small eruptions beginning in the 1990s. The government ordered evacuations then, and ...
Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano rumbled to life again this week, belching out towering clouds of ash that forced 11 villages to cancel school sessions. Every time there is a sigh, tic or heave in ...
Dieng Volcanic Complex: 1 Indonesia: 1979 1979 eruption of Sinila crater [28] 144 Mount Tokachi: 3 Japan: 1926 [29] [better source needed] 117 Dieng Volcanic Complex: 2 Indonesia: 1944 [30] 114 Dieng Volcanic Complex: 1 Indonesia: 1964 [30] 108 to 120 Mount Tarawera: 5 New Zealand: 1886 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera: 106 Dubbi: 3 Eritrea ...
View of the Puebla Valley, with Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl in the distance, 1906. Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl refers to the volcanoes Popocatépetl ("the Smoking Mountain") and Iztaccíhuatl ("sleeping woman" in Nahuatl, sometimes called the Mujer Dormida "sleeping woman" in Spanish) [1] in Iztaccíhuatl–Popocatépetl National Park, [2] [3] which overlook the Valley of Mexico and ...