Popocatépetl volcano maintains gas and ash emission in Mexico

He Popocatepetl volcano continues to release gases and ashes that have reached various locations in the center of Mexicobut its alert level remains at the level prior to highly dangerous, the authorities reported on Tuesday.

Three days after the fumaroles forced the temporary suspension of operations at the two airports that serve Mexico Citythe colossus continued to exhale water vapor, gases and ash, according to the most recent report from the National Center for Disaster Prevention.

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Two explosions and a tremor, a seismic signal associated with the movement of fluids inside the volcano, have also been recorded.

“Its intensity has decreased, the ash it emits is also less (…), we are watching day and night, that there is no alarm, we are watching”, assured earlier the Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

A car covered in ash from the Popocatépetl volcano in the town of Santiago Xalitzintla in the state of Puebla, Mexico, on May 23, 2023. (Photo by CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP) (CLAUDIO CRUZ/)

Meanwhile, the alert level remains at “yellow phase 3″, to which he was raised on Sunday from “yellow phase 2″, after a growing activity that could affect aviation and even remote populations due to the launch of fragments.

This is the level prior to highly dangerous red, also divided into two phases.

“Last night I slept a little better because the other three days the house vibrated the windows, the door and well the noise seemed to alarm”, he told AFP on Tuesday. Francisca de los Santos56 years old, in the town of Santiago Xalitzintlain the state of Pueblawhere ash fall is recorded.

With face masks to prevent respiratory conditions due to inhalation of this material, the woman, like the majority of the inhabitants of the region surrounding the “poop”, he does not plan to leave his home.

Mexican soldiers sweep the ashes from the streets of the town of Santiago Xalitzintla in the state of Puebla, Mexico, on May 23, 2023. (Photo by CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP) (CLAUDIO CRUZ/)

“We are used to it, but it always scares us a little” because “I was out and out of light”, he added, alluding to the incandescence that can be seen at night.

The volcano increased its activity last Friday night with exhalations and moderate explosions, accompanied by the emission of ash and incandescent fragments in the vicinity of the crater.

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As a result, operations at airports were suspended for a few hours on Saturday. Benito Juarez and Felipe Angelesas well as in Puebla, the region most affected by the ash.

He popocatepetlwhose eruptive process was reactivated in December 1994, is located in the limits of the states of Mexico, Morelos and Puebla.

The increased alert forced authorities and relief agencies to prepare personnel, evacuation teams and shelters in the event of an emergency.

Source: Elcomercio