Etna activity Archives

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 […]

Mount Etna’s eruption coming to an end?

Posted on 22/03/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The fifteenth paroxysm of Etna was announced at dawn on March 19 with two very strong “booms” that surprised the piedmont populations, from behind the clouds of rain and snow that hid the volcano. As usual, shortly thereafter, the roars, the lava fountains and the rain of black ash began which this time affected the northern […]

Mount Etna roars on paroxysm 14

Posted on 17/03/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Roars and show! Etna crosses the record line of 14 paroxysms in a month, still following the sequence of strong explosions. It all began on February 16th, 2021, and continued, constantly, at the rate of one event every two days. Paroxysm umber 14 arrives on the night of March 17th, with a surge of volcanic […]