Snow on Etna Volcano


The first snow has fallen on Mount Etna. This year, earlier than usual, the summit shines in us bright white. This weekend winter has also started in Sicily. The volcano has its own special fascination now. Frozen water on a black background! And all of a sudden the “island where the lemons bloom” becomes a […]

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Etna update – 12 April 2014 – Eruption


12.04.2012 In the afternoon of the 12th April 2012, it came at the New Southeast Crater of Mount Etna once an outbreak, the 24th since the start of the eruptive phase, in January 2011 and the 6th in the current year. The event was after a interval of 10 days of relative calm and was like […]

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Mt. Etna update – Eruption 2014


Read what happened at the moment on Mount Etna. We report on outbreaks, tremor and scientific knowledge. We show and explain to you video footage, pictures and seismographic records. ——————————- update 23.04.2012 In den späten Abendstunden des 23. April 2012 ist wieder einmal zu einer kurzen Aktivität des “Neuen Süd-Ost Kraters” gegeben. Die 25. in Folge seit Januar 2011 und […]

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Etna update – 01. April 2012 – Eruption


update April 01, 2012 Every 14 days again … In the early morning hours of 1 April 2012, there was a new episode of lava fountaining from the “new South-East Crater” (New CSE) of Mount Etna, this year now in its fifth times. Also this time it came to high lava fountains, several milesfrom a high column […]

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Etna update – 18. March 2012 – Eruption


update 18 March 2012   This morning at 05.00 clock it started again and after three hours all was over. After two weeks of relative calm Mount Etna erupted again and again, there was lava fountains at the new-south-east crater. In the early hours of 03/18/2012 has started is the 22 Eruption (since January 2011) […]

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