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فوران آتشفشانActivity at Popococatepetl


With a name that means smoking mountain in the Aztec language, Mexico’s Popocatépetl does not disappoint. The towering volcano, about 70 kilometers southeast of Mexico City, was emitting a faint plume of steam and gas on January 4, 2011, when the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this photo-like image.

The agency that monitors volcanoes in Mexico reported five low-intensity eruptions between January 4 and 5. Popocatépetl erupts frequently, and the current eruptive episode started on January 9, 2005, according to the Global Volcanism Program.

Popocatepetl در زبان Aztec مکزیکی بمعنی " کوه در حال دود کردن " است .
این آتشفشان در حدود 70 کیلومتری جنوب خاوری شهر مکزیکو قرار دارد
فوران اخیر این آتشفشان در 9 ژانویه 2005 شروع شده و تا بامروز ادامه دارد .

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