He Etna volcanoThe volcano, more than three thousand meters high, is one of Italy’s active volcanoes and leaves behind spectacular images from time to time East coast of Sicily. This happened recently when broke out again.
On Saturday afternoon December 27th began a series of events recorded by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanologyresponsible for seismic monitoring of the Italian territory. He announced powerful explosions in the northeast crater that “spewed pyroclastic material across the entire cone.”
This type of material is produced when Ash, volcanic rock and hot gases within the volcanoes themselves and is extremely dangerous.
However, it was this last Sunday that the remains of the natural phenomenon. Mainly the spectacular explosions of ash, smoke and lava flows from Etna. They appeared amidst the snow that was falling in the area largest island in the Mediterranean.
In June of that 2025 The volcano was already there broke out. On this occasion, a huge cloud of ash and gas was seen after part of its crater collapsed.
On the morning of the same Sunday, the authorities realized the seriousness of the situation Red alertespecially for airplane flights. In any case, despite the thick smoke, that Catania Fontanarossa Airport He assured that operations continued without interruption EFE.
On the other hand, in this one new eruption phase in it highest volcano in EuropeYou could see a skier quickly reach safe ground with the ash on his back.
This is what it looks like in pictures, a spectacle for the other people on site. Both tourists and residents could watch spectacular columns of ash and smokeas well as Lava flows go down the snowy surface. This magma was moving east, towards the Bove Valley, and has already traveled about 1.8 kilometers east, INGV explained.
This fact was of utmost importance as it was an example of this constant and current vitality of Etna. There were unforgettable explosions with lava fountains. These include the events of 1998 and 1999, when the Vorágine crater recorded two “particularly violent” eruptions.
Furthermore in December 2015 Eruptions with similar characteristics to those mentioned have been recorded. In this way they found themselves in between the most powerful on Etna of the last two decades, in the words of INGV itself.
Aside from what happened last weekend, the volcano’s previous eruption was the June 2nd this year. On that day, residents of the various surrounding towns experienced the repeated phenomenon.
However, the situation led to the temporary closure of the airport Catania It was the one from July 4th and August 14th, 2024. At that time, the volcano erupted violently, creating an ash cloud 9.5 km high.
Strong eruption activity was also recorded from the southeast crater in 2021 numerous episodes from this guy who crossed Mount Etna, make him the most active volcano on the old continent.
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