CENAPRED’s surveillance cameras observed a few moderate-to-strong vulcanian explosions during the past few days.
Two explosions occurred at 01:34 and 10:00 local time yesterday showering the summit cone with glowing lava bombs and caused moderate to strong incandescent avalanches. A dense dark ash plume reached approx. 20,000 ft (6,100 m) altitude.
181 emissions of water vapor and gases were detected.
The seismic network recorded 368 minutes of internal tremor including two volcano-tectonic earthquakes with magnitude M 1.8 and 2.0.
Source: Centro Nacional de Prevención de Desastres volcano activity update 12 September 2021
Glowing lava bombs thrown from the summit crater at Popocatépetl volcano yesterday (source: @DavidHe11952876/twitter)
September 11, 2021 ~ Explosion ~ Popocatepetl Volcano, Mexico #volcano #popocatepetl 01:34 CDT pic.twitter.com/oSTYJZTwRo
— Volcano Time-Lapse (@DavidHe11952876) September 11, 2021