Tag: Eruption

Etna’s latest eruption, which began on August 6th and is still ongoing, has become the undisputed spectacle of the summer in Sicily. What seemed like “the usual paroxysm” has now expanded, with two lateral fractures opening at lower altitudes and several rivers of lava flowing rapidly down the valley. Almost five days after the event, […]

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Things are getting complicated up there on the front of Etna’s new eruption—which began on the morning of August 6th and is still ongoing. Indeed, while the situation was already challenging, with paroxysms at the Voragine crater and the lava flow from there toward the Northeast crater, the opening of a lateral vent around 2,800 […]

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Mount Etna is “singing” again, and it’s doing so like a tenor, with a new eruption involving the Voragine crater. On the morning of August 7th, this eruption also saw the reopening of a flank fracture between the Valle del Leone and the Valle del Bove. Given the complexity of the phenomenon, which is occurring […]

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The new, sudden eruption of Mount Etna, which began at dawn on July 30, officially ended on August 1st. It was an eruption that had started like many others… increased tremors, paroxysm with lava fountains… but which had an “anomalous” ending, though not entirely new: a fracture in Valle del Leone. Given the low altitude […]

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This time it was a real surprise! Almost no one expected the Etna eruption that began at dawn on July 30, 2026, except perhaps volcanologists and a few avid readers of volcanic tremor graphs. It looked like just a cloud of steam on a very humid day, that white column rising from the Voragine Crater… […]

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