Etna goes on with the sixth paroxysm
Sixth paroxysm of Mt. Etna, as everyone expected and hoped for. Less than 24 hours later, after the paroxysm of the night between 22 and 23 February 2021, Etna resumes the show. Now it…
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Mount Etna Show, as you had never seen it before
"We volcanologists of long experience were just watching in amazement ...." These words of Dr. Boris Behncke are good enough to describe and make us understand what the paroxysm of Mt. Etna on February…
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Etna, paroxysm number five
Without brakes, but with a now constant pace, Mount Etna continues its daily eruptions. In the late evening of today, Monday 22 February 2021, the volcano thunders again in the dark. The INGV press…
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Mysteries of Agrigento
How do those millenary temples manage to resist over the centuries? What is the Devil's Letter? And what do the Crusaders have to do with the city of almond trees in bloom? Agrigento is…
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Fourth paroxysm of Etna and a 4-hole eruption
As widely predicted by the Institute of Volcanology of Catania, Mount Etna had not yet finished to amaze and a new paroxysm was waiting after the previous three. The volcano did not betray expectations…
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Mt Etna eruption, new update
Etna gives no respite, and does not seem to have any itself. At 9 am on February 19, the volcano becomes restless to the point that the Institute of Volcanology immediately goes into alert.…
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Night of fire, Etna on eruption again
It was a night of fire! Yet yesterday it all seemed to be over. "She is giving us only a break" .... the volcanologists of Catania had said, however, describing the apparent state of…
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Etna, the long time expected great eruption started
The great eruption of Mount Etna, which had been expected for over a year, began at 4 pm on February 16th, 2021. First, a small lava overflow from the South East crater (SEC) and…
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Five good reasons for visiting Etna in 2021
Do not be discouraged! There will always be good reasons for visiting Mount Etna, in Sicily. Even during this Covid 19 pandemics which forces us to stay at home for some time. It is…
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Etnean recipes for a Carnival dinner
In the year of Covid pandemics, which has not ended yet, all the parties that include gatherings have been suspended. Such as the Mardi Gras Carnival, for example. Thursday will already be the opening…
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