Feb 26 2008
Popocatepetl Daily Update for 2/26/08
Current Popocatepetl status from CENAPRED:
February 26 11:00 h. (17:00 GMT)
In the last 24 hours the monitoring system detected 13 low exhalations acompanied by steam and gas and sometimes small ammounts of ash. Also some episodes of harmonic tremor of low amplitude were detected.
At the moment of this report we can see the volcano with a steam and gas emission (see image).
From high to low probability the expected activity scenarios in the next hours, days or weeks are: moderate exhalations, some with ash emissions; occasionally mild incandescence during nights and sporadic low level explosions with low probabilities of incandescent fragment at short distance to the crater.
There is a permanent monitoring of the volcano to detect any change. The traffic light of volcanic alert remains in YELLOW Phase 2.
