Powerful images of Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano eruption

Mother Nature's Fury on full display

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(ERIK GOMEZ TOCHIMANI/AFP via Getty Images)

Mexico’s most dangerous active volcano lit up the sky in a powerful spectacle of incandescent fire and ash the past few days, a continuance of surging activity that began on May 15. The eruption is the first since 1994, and the effects have just begun, with Mexico City—only 45 miles away—warning of possible evacuations of some 25 million people while two airports in the area have already delayed flights.

The images captured from the early stages to the full eruption have been as striking as they have been harrowing.

 

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupts

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(JOSE CASTANARES/AFP via Getty Images)

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupts

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupts

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(JOSE CASTANARES/AFP via Getty Images)

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupts

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(JOSE CASTANARES/AFP via Getty Images)

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupts

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(OSVALDO CANTERO/AFP via Getty Images)

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupts

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(OSVALDO CANTERO/AFP via Getty Images)

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupts

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupts

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(ERIK GOMEZ TOCHIMANI/AFP via Getty Images)

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupts

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupts

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(ERIK GOMEZ TOCHIMANI/AFP via Getty Images)

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupts

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(ERIK GOMEZ TOCHIMANI/AFP via Getty Images)

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