Eruption Archives

Tour on Mt Etna: what you can and cannot do

Posted on 08/07/2024 (08/07/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

It can happen. It happens. The tourist arrives with many expectations… he/she wants to see an eruption, a crater, a mountain slope, but the guide must dismantle their enthusiasm. And immediately there is disbelief, anger and a negative review! “They promised me a ride on off-road tracks but instead we took normal asphalted roads!”, “We […]

Powerful roars and lots of ash: Etna show

Posted on 07/07/2024 by Grazia Musumeci

Roars, puffs, column of ash…! It all seemed over but as we often say… it’s Etna that decides. And always surprising. And so the eruptive activity of the Voragine crater (video by Michele Mammino here) after about 24 hours of pause resumed with force around 2 am on July 7th, to continue until 9 am […]

Etna: the great Voragine eruption started

Posted on 04/07/2024 by Grazia Musumeci

The Institute of Volcanology (INGV) statement took a while to arrive, but in the end it declared what all of us inhabitants – and lucky tourists – were already seeing. The explosive activity of the Voragine crater, one of the four summits of Etna, increased dramatically during the afternoon and evolved into a lava fountain […]

The Voragine: is the eruption coming to its top?

Posted on 30/06/2024 (30/06/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

With the statement issued by the INGV (Geo-Volcanology Institute) on 29th June, the eruption at Mt Etna’s Voragine crater, one of the largest among the summit ones, seems to be coming to its top. “It seems”, we must say, because Etna does its own thing, and almost never respects the parameters and signals that it […]

Etna, crater Voragine “sings” again!

Posted on 17/06/2024 (25/06/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

World War 2 had just ended when the Voragine crater opened at the top of Mount Etna. It was October 1945 and, suddenly, a portion of the thousand-year-old Central Crater – already flanked by the North East Crater – collapsed, creating a hole (pit crater) which in turn began an intense eruptive activity. This new […]