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The eruption that everyone had been waiting for for two days finally started on the afternoon of November 12th. After a morning of intense degassing and a drastic increase in volcanic tremor, Mount Etna…
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Finally, the lava appeared! It did it without any stress, without particular excitement. After three months of modest puffs, rings of vapour and tensions that almost all came from the Bocca Nuova crater, on…
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Surprising as only Mount Etna can be ... it gives, on the eve of the August 15th Midsummer Festival, an eruption that almost no one expected. The last paroxysmal event had occurred in May…
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To see a gas ring is a special event, because it is also very rare, on a volcano. However, Mount Etna is not just any volcano and even in this it manages to upset…
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The people of Etna do not consider the volcano as an inanimate thing, but as a living being. They call it a “she”, a “mum”, and not surprisingly. In fact, this mountain seems to…
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Between Thursday 18 and Friday 19 May 2023, the district of Catania experienced a few hours of intense turmoil. A red top alert level appeared in many media and on various sites and social…
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It was a hundred and twenty-two days of apocalypse on earth. And the chronicles handed down from father to son still speak of it as one of the greatest eruptions ever recorded in the…
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Will it be a spectacular year like 2021? Or a year of relative calm, as was the "old" 2022?Mount Etna is always unpredictable and always ready to surprise and deny forecasts. But for the…
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Photo Credits - Fabrizio Zuccarello - Nov 27, 2022 After an intense day of bad weather, the clouds part in the evening revealing a surprise that the Etna volcano has given to its population:…
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The last weird eruption of Mount Etna ended like that ... suddenly, on June 12th. Exactly one month after its beginning, on 12th May. Then, the north flank of the South East Crater split…
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