Etna activity Archives

About Mount Etna’s eruption of 1669

Posted on 30/01/2023 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

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 modern era. That of 1669, on the southern slope of Mount Etna, still remains today a grandiose natural event, devastating but […]

Mount Etna’s first eruption in 2023

Posted on 01/01/2023 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

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 moment it seems to have welcomed the new year 2023 with a new and respectable eruption. An eruption that actually started […]

Etna, on November 27th a new vent opens

Posted on 27/11/2022 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

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: a bright red glow at the foot of the summit craters. A new fracture which, as confirmed by the National Institute […]

Explaining Etna’s new eruption which has just ended

Posted on 16/06/2022 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

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 in several places, letting out a long lava flow. “Weird” eruption not because it was unexpected or anomalous but because the […]

Eruption update: Etna keeps on breaking on the east side

Posted on 07/06/2022 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

INGV ———- RELEASE OF VOLCANIC ACTIVITY of 7 June 2022 — ETNA The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Etneo Observatory, reports that new fractures have been observed at the base of the northern wall of the Valle del Bove, in the Serracozzo area. From the further downstream part of this fracture system, lava is […]