Eruption Archives

Etna: how did “baby” SEC change?

Posted on 23/06/2025 (23/06/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Today, the Southeast Crater (SEC) is called by everyone “the beast”, or “the black beast”, because it has effectively become one of the most impressive craters on the summit of Etna. For those who saw it born in 1971, however, it still remains “the little one”, “the child of Etna”. Yet the rapid and unexpected […]

Etna: big eruption on June 2 and collapse of the SEC

Posted on 02/06/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

“Guys, you call this GRAZING THE IMPOSSIBLE” says the voice, out of breath, while the video frames a huge black cloud hovering over the summit craters of Etna. The voice continues, with fear vibrating in the vocal cords: “Look at this cloud, we were just a stone’s throw away and thank goodness we had a […]

Leonardo da Vinci and Mount Etna

Posted on 28/04/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

Leonardo da Vinci and Mount Etna. What does it mean? Has the great Florentine genius ever really been to our volcano to the point of studying it and being fascinated by it? It must be said right away that Leonardo, precisely because of the genius that he was, ALSO studied the energies of the earth, […]

Etna: new paroxysmal phase

Posted on 07/04/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna has entered a new paroxysmal phase, as is usual for this perpetually active volcano, accustomed to “changing its attitude” from time to time. The episodes characterized by small explosions, with lively lava fountains from the South East crater, are repeated with a certain consistency. Unfortunately, the bad weather of the last few weeks […]

Can you see Mt Etna from Malta? (how, where, when)

Posted on 10/03/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

Etna is the highest active volcano in Europe but it is also one of the highest mountains in the Mediterranean. This is proven by the fact that it is visible from almost every corner of Sicily, from the Aeolian Islands … including Stromboli, and that it can be clearly photographed from Calabria and even from […]