Popocatépetl Volcano Erupts in Mexico (Video)
The volcano spewed a three-kilometre column of ash.
An active volcano, Popocatépetl, erupted in Mexico, reports BBC.
On the morning of January 9, the volcano spewed a 3,000-metre column of ash, rocks and lava.
No one was injured.
A satellite of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration captured the moment of the eruption from space.
Popocatépetl (Popocatépetl) — an active stratovolcano located 70 km southeast of Mexico's capital, Mexico City. Its name comes from two Nahuatl words: popoca, meaning 'smoking', and tepetl, meaning 'hill' or 'mountain', that is, smoking mountain.
It is Mexico's second-largest and most active volcano. Its height reaches 5,426 metres.
Earlier, on December 9, a White Island volcano eruption occurred in New Zealand, one of the most visited active volcanoes in the world, which is open to tourists. At the time of the eruption, at least 47 visitors were near the volcano on the island. Among them were tourists from Australia, the US, Germany, China, the UK and Malaysia. On December 23, it was reported that the eruption had killed 17 people.
In Hawaii, a man fell into a lava tunnel and died.
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