The Popocatepetl volcano has been coating towns with ash and disrupting flights at Mexico City’s airport.
MEXICO CITY — Towering a couple of hours from one of the world’s largest cities, thevolcano has been coating nearby towns with ash and disrupting flights at Mexico City’s airport, the busiest in Latin America.
In past weeks, the volcano entered another one of those periods. Spewing ash, gas and lava, authorities have increased the alert to the yellow, second level on a stoplight-style scale, but not to red. “The probability that this continues as it has previously is far higher than the probability that this grows to much higher levels,” he said.
On Monday, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said in his morning briefing that “the movements of the volcano are being monitored 24 hours a day.”Popocatepetl’s recent activity is not necessarily a bad thing, said Robin Campion, a volcanologist at the Institute of Geophysics. The scientist explained that small explosions alleviate pressure from magma inside the mountain, and likely mean that it won’t lead to a buildup and larger eruption.
While the ash is not toxic, Carlos Valdés, head of UNAM’s National Seismological Service, said it could affect breathing and air quality, and also continue to affect flights to and from Mexico City’s international airport.
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