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Popocatépetl Volcano Updates: Mass Evacuation, World’s Most Dangerous Volcano Exploding, Millions at Risk

Saturday, January 23, 2016 9:07
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by Deborah Dupré

Update: Sun 24 Jan. 7:45 PST: Popocatepetl Volcano Erupting Lava

Popocatepetl volcano in central Mexico remained active all day Sunday, spewing a constant stream of ash and gas into the. The volcano, also known as “Don Goyo”, started sustained activity Saturday morning and continued almost uninterrupted all day Sunday — with one addition, erupting lava.

Mexico’s National Disaster Prevention Centre said in its daily report that the volcano erupted lava Saturday night. Authorities are urging people not to get close to the volcano and particularly to its craters.

Update: Sun. 24 Jan. 7:00pm PST: Ominous Popocatépetl Volcano Brand New Videos

Mexican government officials released warnings and ominous videos on Sunday, showing Popocatépetl volcano now has “constant activity, generating a constant exhalation of steam with low ash content.” The government’s strong warnings to the public were related to extreme dangers linked to the volcano, now emitting dangerously large ballistic fragments. The volcano is only 35 miles from the world’s 3rd largest city, Mexico City, with over 21 million residents.

The official videos presented by Mexican officials at CENAPRED came with strong warnings, but also statements advising that this volcanic activity is considered within the yellow light phase 2, so the actual phase has not changed since yesterday. [Read more and watch videos here: Ominous Popocatépetl Volcano Brand New Videos]

READ: Alaska 7.1 Earthquake, Mysterious Booms

Update: Sun. 24 Jan, 7:30am PST

As Popocatépetl Volcano ceases to rest, Colima Volcano: Mexico’s Disaster Prevention Centre said that during the past 24 hours, Colima volcano emitted three explosions and 16 “low intensity exhalations,” according to El Universal. People are urged to not approach the peak, particularly the crater, due “ballistic fragments.” The Ministry of Interior expects continued “low explosive activity on an intermediate scale”, mild to moderate ash falls in the nearby town, and possibile “fast-moving currents of hot gas and rock.”

According to the national coordinator of Civil Protection, Luis Felipe Puente, Colima volcano emitted a flash forming a column approximately two kilometers high with low ash content. The official of the Ministry of the Interior (Interior Ministry) said that the emanation on the border of the states of Jalisco and Colima, occurred at 10:14 hours Saturday, and winds scattered it southeast.

“Exhaling # VolcánDeColima at 10:14 Hrs. Height approx 2 km, heading east with low ash content, “he wrote on Twitter, LUISFELIPE_P.

Prevention: Populations surrounding the “Volcano of Fire” are urged to stay informed and take precautions, especially because toxic volcanic ashfall health effects can last a long time. In case of ashfall, it is suggested people cover mouths and noses, clean eyes and throats, wear eyeglasses, close windows, cover water bodies for not pollute, stay indoors, sweep ash but not throw it down the drain, according to El Sol De Mexico.

 

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Popocatépetl volcano Photo Credit: Cenapred

Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes, spewed a mile-high ash plume into the sky Friday, threatening millions of Mexicans’ lives and prompting a mass evacuation alert to prevent catastrophe. Popocatepetl is only 35 miles from Mexico City and 20 miles from Peubla. Many Mexicans have already fled their homes, escaping the fiery monster’s poisonous gas and ash casting daytime darkness.

Mexico City, the country’s capital and the world’s fourth most populated city, is home to 20 million people. Peubla has over 6 million people living there, now under a sky dark with ash and smok. Everyone in both Mexico City and Puebla could be at risk if a catastrophic eruption occurs. If the volcano has a massive eruption, an estimated nine million people would be in the blast zone. Impact on the atmosphere could be catastrophic.

Popocatepetl fiery restlessness in 2013

Popocatepetl is the Aztec word for “Smoking Mountain.”, according to the Global Volcanism Program. It is the second-highest volcano in North America, measuring 17,802 feet in elevation.

The Popocatepetl monster volcano’s last major eruption was in 2000, when 41,000 people were evacuated in advance to prevent catastrophe. Since 2012,  activity there has been increasing.

Officials are so worried about a potential catastrophe, on Friday, they issued an early warning.

At 5,426 meters (17,802 ft.), Popocatepetl is the second highest peak in Mexico, second only to the dormant Citlaltépetl (Pico de Orizaba) about 5,636 meters (18,491 ft.) high in the border between Mexican states of Veracruz and Puebla, also in the eastern part of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. People within 10 miles of the volcano have been placed on yellow alert, ready to escape immediately if activity increases.
 
The glacier-covered volcano has erupted 20 times in approximately 500 years. That, however, is not the only angry volcano showing its might. Mexico has over 3,000 volcanoes, 14 of which are considered active, one other also now spewing poisonous gas and ash, indicating that it, too is ready blow.

Northwest of Popocatepetl volcano and southwest of Guadalajara, the Colima volcano spewed a 1.8-mile high eruption only a couple of weeks ago. Some officials say there is a heightened danger of a large explosive eruption from Colima because it has been over 100 years since its last large eruption.

Heightened explosive activity at Colima has prompted evacuation preparations if the restlessness continues or increases.

Lava spewing out of Smoking Rock in 2013

Cimate-Volcano Connection

Scientists have shown that a rise in Earth’s temperatures during global warming is dangerously impacting volcanic activity globally. In the past, the scietnists reported in 2013, when ice melted, it triggered volcanic activity.

In the recent study a team of geologists examined samples of sea-floor mud from around the Ring of Fire for evidence of past eruptions. Analyzing the frequency of ash layers in the geological record, the researchers found a pattern: Large eruptions tended to occur once every 41,000 years. Random as that number may sound, it’s as familiar to paleoclimatologists as the moon’s 28ish-day cycle is to the rest of us: over the course of 41,000 years, the Earth tilts gradually forward, and then backward, on its axis. It’s called “Obliquity,” and it’s one of three “Milankovitch Cycles” that occur over long periods and influence Earth’s climate.

Ice can trigger a volcano as water shifts weight from ocean basin to land, and continents get compressed by miles-thick ice sheets sitting atop of them. When things warm, melting ice runs back into oceans, taking a great load off of continents. This movement pushes magma under the continents’ surface, the same way one end of a water balloon bulges when squeezing the other end, and a sudden decrease in pressure over the land might cause magma to surge upward from deep below.

The climate-volcano connection doesn’t apply to Earth’s current warming trend, of course, because we’re not in the middle of an ice age–it’s been 12,000 years since the world’s continents felt the weight of all that frozen water.

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  • Now All Hell Is breaking loose across the entire globe.
    Massive amounts of full blown viral web reports coming in.

    Reports of unknown space objects coming in, and disrupting planets within the solar system, creating much disturbance, also youtube bpearthwatch reports of highly probable asteroid impact, and gets yanked off youtube, although set-up a backup channel.

    Turkey High Crimes against humanity, killing Kurdish Women & Children, same with the The House of Saud of Saudi Arabia Both Have committed high crimes against humanity, and broke every law of the Geneva Convention, with the mass murders of civilians.

    Countries around the globe building up, and now ready for War, Turkey is Poised to Invade Syria/Russia, Israel poised to invade Iran, Nato Poised to Invade Russia, China, and N. Korea.
    The Hell storm is here. The Alerts Are off the Charts.

    Now Viral reports indicate the total economical collapse is here.
    The whole world is in turmoil.
    The Grocery stores will be empty within 24 hours, fuel will be tough to find, all reserves will be shipped to the battle fronts.

    Good Luck to all

    • b4

      luck might be useful but i am taking a few steps to increase the odds!

      • Same Here

      • Such as?

        • mitch51

          I have laid in a years supply of weed and tequila. This is serious stuff. :eek:

          • Yes, also have some home brew brewing, ah yes with the finest of yeast.
            Also have the back up still ready encase one should need some good antiseptic, and lamp fuel.

            Have the Incubator on standby mode, able to produce on a massive scale large breasted chickens, good for the grill, no electricity required.

          • Hmm. That’ll surely help our children and theirs – the future of humanity. [Not] I guess it’s the ol’ KYAG solution. Is that even still used these days?

        • My Chickens, are under direct order to pick up the slack. As they have a tough time laying 2 eggs a day, they are now laying double yoke eggs for the effort.
          Thermal hotbed Gardening going on with the Plants also under direct order to think HOT, and produce beautiful vegetables in the winter.
          Not to mention having optimized Plan A & B, and throw in some varibles, to come up with Plan C.

    • Relax. take a beer.

    • BP EARTHWATCH HAS NOT BEEN TAKEN OFF U TUBE- :neutral:

    • As our dear Michael Ruppert (RIP) American writer and musician, Los Angeles Police Department officer, investigative journalist, political activist called it in a word: Collapse.

  • let the good times roll

    • Cher, you must be from my old stompin’ grounds, Louisiana?

  • Don’t you understand for God’s sakes at last that “global warming” is the most elaborated HOAX of the 21th century?????it is the COVER-up for what planet X is doing to our planet: increasing seismic and volcanic activity, odd atmospheric patterns…Even our sun is under its influence… Bravo to PTB since the fifties they have been executing their plan perfectly, washing our brains and transforming us to zombies…

    • “Scientists have shown that a rise in Earth’s temperatures during global warming is dangerously impacting volcanic activity globally.” No they have not. The “IS” part.

      What they’ve shown lately is, we haven’t had any warming for nearly 20 years. Based on satellite measurements of temperature. Which happen to be confirmed by weather balloon measurements.

      And how do satellites measure air temperature? By the irradiance of oxygen. Yes, oxygen radiates its heat directly to space, unobstructed by water vapor or carbon dioxide.

      Blocking some frequencies of infra red, and expecting the earth’s atmosphere to get warmer, is like closing one window of your house, and expecting it to get warmer. The other windows are open.

      It is nice to see that natural climate cycles are being acknowledged. But it’s just a guess that ice melt caused volcanic eruptions. What else was going on, during those warm periods. What was the Sun doing. What was happening with the Earth’s axis?

      When the axis shifts, the equatorial bulge shifts, and that’s many times more mass than any pile of ice on the planet.

      The 41,000 year cycle is based on observation of the skies in modern times. And the dating of volcanic eruptions is imprecise. We do know from history and geology that the axis has shifted dramatically in the past.

      • No warming in 20 years? That’s what they have shown? Who are “they”?

        Scientists with integrity (not paid by NWO Big Oil) concur: Humanity just lived through the hottest year on record.

        Here’s an idea:
        Let’s make a deal. Name your sources and give links of your “information” and “facts”. I’ll do the same. Then, I’ll show the readers where both side’s sources are funded. Fair enough?

        If you do not or cannot do so, one might easily assume you are not providing facts, but instead, disinformation to convince unwitting deniers to continue supporting their own endgame.

        • Deborah Dupre anyone who knows anything about the issue knows this.

          But since you don’t, here is a good list of WHEN the warm cycle STOPPED, according to the various organizations. This is from 2013. Notice EVERYBODY is listed as a source.

          1.For GISS [NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies], the slope is flat since February 2001 or 12 years, 6 months (goes to July 2013).

          For Hadcrut3 [UK Hadley Meteorological Office Climate Research Unit], the slope is flat since April 1997 or 16 years, 4 months (goes to July 2013).

          For a combination of GISS, Hadcrut3, UAH and RSS, the slope is flat since December 2000 or 12 years, 8 months (goes to July 2013).

          For Hadcrut4 [a newer version of the Hadley surface temperature dataset], the slope is flat since December 2000 or 12 years, 8 months (goes to July 2013.)

          For Hadsst2 [Hadley sea surface temperature dataset], the slope is flat since March 1997 or 16 years, 4 months (goes to June 2013).

          For UAH, the slope is flat since January 2005 or 8 years, 7 months (goes to July, 2013 using version 5.5).

          For RSS, the slope is flat since December 1996 or 16 years and 8 months (goes to July 2013).

          http://www.globalwarming.org/2013/09/03/rss-record-shows-200-month-warming-pause/

          BELOW is a nice chart showing the UAH data all the way to November 2015. All the way back to 1979.

          https://climatism.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/2015-will-be-the-3rd-warmest-year-in-the-satellite-record/

          And if you think 2015 was the hottest year on record LOOK AT THE RECORD. That is lower atmosphere temperature MEASURED by satellite, look at 1997-98.

          LOOK AT THE MEASUREMENTS.

    • What I do understand is that Big Oil, a driving force of the NWO PTB, funded a highly successful mind control campaign to dupe the American public into thinking there is no global warming, much less global warming caused by fossil fuels. They are now admitting it after found guilty of this psychological operation, all while they themselves prepared for global warming dangers within their corporations. The well-funded campaign targeted all levels, hitting so-called “alternative” news sources among the hardest with distractions and deceptions – anything but real science. Climate denier “scientists” have been and are paid big bucks to keep the big lie going. Follow the money and see who is duping whom, my friend. Wants links? Or would evidence matter? (Usually not.)

      • Do you even know what “science” means, Deborah Dupre? It means facts and logic. Not who said something. Not motives you attribute to someone. Facts and logic.

        Like the satellite measurements of temperature, supported by weather balloon measurements of temperature. And weather balloon measurements of water vapor, for decades.

        The water vapor is what “global warming” computer models depend on. It’s supposed to increase and “trap heat.” It hasn’t increased.

        “Science” doesn’t mean “we don’t need actual thermometer readings from you, because we have a computer model that interpolates them.”

        It doesn’t mean dropping thousands of ground stations and using only the ones in the warmest spots.

        Science means measuring the temperature of the atmosphere of Venus, at the altitude where the pressure is equal to sea level pressure on Earth. The atmosphere of Venus is nearly ALL carbon dioxide. And the temperature at that pressure/altitude is an average 60 F.

        Logic is where you realize that all those folks who told you there is no greenhouse effect made points that nobody has ever refuted. Heat flows from greater concentration to lesser, and not the other way around. Heat is not “trapped” by water vapor or C02, in the humid air of Earth or the C02 atmosphere of Venus. And heat radiates out of Earth’s atmosphere directly into space from every level.

        There is no question about who has been “duped.”

  • OMG! They totally screwed what they said in the last paragraph from what they said in the previous paragraph…if this cycle happens during ice ages and warming..like it said in the next to last paragraph…then it would apply to both ice and warming also like it said…they say in the last paragraph that it only happens when there is an ice age…Duh ! like get your facts straight.

  • He’ll is Not breaking loose.

    Volcanos vent pressure.

    That’s what they do

    It’s not from burning fossils

    They were here before us . don’t live next to a volcano.

    Why would you build a city next to an active volcano.
    Then blame it on global warming.

    The word is active
    Look it up

    Do you build a hospital next to an active volcano.?

    Sure, if you only have a 2nd grade education.

    • You make a couple of odd points, nevertheless worthy of responses:
      The researchers mentioned in this article offer a scientific explanation for increased volcanic activity globally, regardless of average grade level of their residents.
      The researchers basic findings are presented here at 4th grade level in hopes of more people understanding. I am truly sorry you did not.
      Many cities globally are at great risk of catastrophe more so than in recorded history, regardless of what grade level they have.

  • Lots of global warning going on on the east coast right now – could cause a catastrophe. better pray for deliverance :lol:

  • So where were all the UFO’s? They love Volcano’s

    • Can everyone shut up lm trying to build a fortified igloo.

  • Well, we climate change / global warming “deniers” have to express ourselves carefully as we chuck another baby in the oven /sarc

    The climate of earth may still be rising as it has been generally since the rather sudden end of the last ice age 12,000 odd years ago, though with some dips like the Little Ice Age several hundred years ago which killed off the Viking colonists in Greenland.. The key to the globalist dickhead hoax is not global warming or climate change but the originally used first word which somehow (another /sarc) has been conveniently left out lately – i.e. anthropogenic – man made for the non-Latin majors. The great hoax is that our human, earthly activities have had any meaningful effect on climate, though there is little doubt that the HAARP instillations around the planet are greatly effecting the weather. But, on the other hand, maybe the Neanderthal cave cooking fires ended the last ice age :-)

  • Heads up, you accidentally wrote “World’s Most Dangerous Volcano” in your headline.

  • Hilarious comments here.

    Of course anyone who can read can learn the real science from scientists who do the actual research on climate change, of whom there are thousands, and who all agree it is anthropogenic except a few who are known to be in the pay of fossil fuel companies or have religious or ideological reasons for not believing the evidence. See http://www.ucsusa.org/our-work/global-warming/science-and-impacts/global-warming-science#.VqUJVFnqXmE, http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/, https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-determine-the-scientific-consensus-on-global-warming/, http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/earth-atmospheric-and-planetary-sciences/12-340-global-warming-science-spring-2012/, https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-warming, https://www.aip.org/history/climate/timeline.htm, and on and on…

    Many of these sources have links to the original research, which is harder to read because it is technical.
    The real hoaxsters, namely the denial leaders, some of whom are actually scientists, have come up with arguments against anthropogenesis, all of which have been refuted.

    The biggest criminals are the fossil fuel companies and the billionaires who profit from them, who have funded denial for decades, even though their own research supported the scientific consensus. See http://business-humanrights.org/en/union-of-concerned-scientists-report-says-fossil-fuel-industry-knowingly-worked-to-deceive-public-about-realities-risks-of-climate-change for an excellent compilation of original documents from the deniers showing they have engaged in deliberate deception for decades.

    • Paul Brown you discredit your own ideas by (1) making a pile of ad hominem arguments and (2) not making any statement of fact.

      Your conceit will prevent you from ever admitting, to yourself, that you were fooled.

      I do not share that affliction. I do admit that I was fooled.

      Perhaps you are not equipped to think through what you read. I’m not seeing any evidence of critical thinking, or any kind of thinking, in your post.

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