Etna activity Archives

Mt Etna on a crazy 24-hour eruption

Posted on 26/05/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna often changes style and modality of manifestation of its volcanic phenomena and therefore should not surprise yet another revolution. But it is surprising, indeed, because it is still not possible to interpret. Really this volcano sometimes seems “alive and reasoning”, with a decision-making autonomy that displaces everyone. Back in activity a few weeks […]

Mount Etna’s brand new eruptive situation

Posted on 24/05/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Volcanologists had said it right away, when the volcano seemed to fall asleep in April. Mount Etna activity is not over, it is only on hiatus for some time. How much time? It is not known, it is the volcano that decides, as it always has. And in fact, after two months of apparent stillness […]

Mount Etna’s new eruption “greets” singer Franco Battiato

Posted on 19/05/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The dawn of May 19th on Mount Etna started with a weird eruption. Not even volcanologists expected it, it came so suddenly and almost without any warning signal. As the note released by Dr. Boris Behncke of the INGV indicates: “A completely unexpected and slightly different episode of lava fountains. Surprisingly, around midnight (local time) […]

Mount Etna back to the April Fool show

Posted on 01/04/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Etna changes again and again, it becomes unpredictable. After two months of continuous paroxysms, at the rate of one every fifty hours, by mid-March it seems to have subsided. Long pauses, even of five or seven days, between one eruptive event and another. And each new event lasts up to fifteen hours, instead of the […]

Surprise Etna! On eruption again

Posted on 24/03/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

It had to be all over, they had to be the last breaths of an eruptive event that seemed to never end … and for four days in fact Mount Etna fell into silence. No more fountains, no more roars. Tremor decreasing. End of the eruption? Maybe. At the INGV they never get out of […]