Etna activity Archives

Etna replies to the La Palma eruption of Canary

Posted on 21/09/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Etna does not allow itself to be “second” to any other volcano in the world! That is what Cumbre Vieja, on the Spanish island of La Palma – Canary archipelago – learned the hard way. It started a spectacular eruption on the afternoon of Sunday 19th September. The lava came out of a fracture that […]

Etna, powerful eruption on August 9

Posted on 09/08/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Etna explodes almost without warning at dawn on August 9, 2021, after almost 24 hours of “push and pull”. Tremors rising, falling, rising again, impending eruptions and new changes. On the night of Sunday 8th August everyone went to sleep convinced that the event was postponed. Then something happened after 2 in the morning. First […]

Etna, the great eruption of 2021

Posted on 28/06/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is a volcano that may work in “cycles”, that is, it often passes through phases already experienced in the past. In 2018, after the earthquake that shook the east side of the mountain, volcanologists began to talk about the “cycle of side eruptions”. They were expecting one of those long restless periods that […]

Double eruption and new vents, Mount Etna never stops

Posted on 24/06/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

June 23rd, 2021, is a day not to be forgotten. Under the hood of yellow sirocco fog that almost completely hides it from view, the great Mount Etna unleashes a double eruption at the beginning and end of the day. Sudden spikes in values ??announce, in both cases at a short distance, the onset of […]

Mt Etna back again with violent explosions

Posted on 20/06/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna replicates the show concluded just 48 hours earlier with noteworthy explosions. It does so on June 19 with an incredible and unexpected outburst. The lava fountains start quietly around 8 pm and in a very short time they level up becoming very high explosions and pouring blazing boulders on the flanks of the […]