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For the Geo Quiz, we want you to name a volcano about 35 miles outside Mexico City which has been rumbling and sending up clouds of ash and steam in recent days.
Popocatepetl eruption (BBC video)
There’s no smoking gun for this Geo Quiz, but there is a “smoking mountain.”
We want you to name a nearly 18,000 ft volcano about 35 miles outside Mexico City.
Its name means “smoking mountain” in the indigenous Nahuatl language.
And it’s living up to that name: the volcano’s been rumbling and sending up clouds of ash and steam in recent days.
Mexican authorities have raised the alert to level 5 on a 7-point scale.
That’s got locals on edge. One resident said “we close our eyes but we don’t sleep much”.
More than half a million people live in the volcano’s shadow and as many as 25 million live within a 60-mile radius.
The mountain we’re talking about is the Popocatepetl volcano. Reporter Franc Contreras has been speaking with residents who live in the shadow of ‘El Popo’.