Etna activity Archives

Etna: big eruption on June 2 and collapse of the SEC

Posted on 02/06/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

“Guys, you call this GRAZING THE IMPOSSIBLE” says the voice, out of breath, while the video frames a huge black cloud hovering over the summit craters of Etna. The voice continues, with fear vibrating in the vocal cords: “Look at this cloud, we were just a stone’s throw away and thank goodness we had a […]

Etna: new paroxysmal phase

Posted on 07/04/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna has entered a new paroxysmal phase, as is usual for this perpetually active volcano, accustomed to “changing its attitude” from time to time. The episodes characterized by small explosions, with lively lava fountains from the South East crater, are repeated with a certain consistency. Unfortunately, the bad weather of the last few weeks […]

Etna Eruption 2025: a brand new lava flow

Posted on 24/02/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

No, it wasn’t over yet. It never is until Etna decides so. In the last hours of February 23, the eruptive activity triggered by the fracture at the base of Bocca Nuova Crater – which seemed to have ended the previous day – has regained strength. Although the main lava flow appears almost stopped, a […]

Etna: the eruption is going to end, but …

Posted on 20/02/2025 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Twelve days after the start of the effusive eruption on Mount Etna, it seems that everything is about to end. The phenomenon started from a fracture at the base of the Bocca Nuova crater on February 8, has produced – in almost two weeks – a long lava flow that has descended on the western […]

Etna: eruption update and some advice

Posted on 15/02/2025 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Seven days have passed since the start of the new eruption of Mount Etna, triggered by a fracture at the base of the Bocca Nuova crater (although fed by the South East conduit), which is affecting the western flank of the volcano. How is the eruptive activity continuing? Initially, a river of very liquid lava […]