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Mount Etna Show, as you had never seen it before

Posted on 23/02/2021 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

“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 23rd night was (video by Michele Mammino here). An unprecedented show! No matter how many volcanic episodes one may have seen, […]

Etna, paroxysm number five

Posted on 23/02/2021 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

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 release brings the time of 22:56 when it informs everyone that: “there is an increase in frequency and intensity of Strombolian […]

Mysteries of Agrigento

Posted on 21/02/2021 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

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 not only a district capital and a city with a rich ancient history. Here are kept mysteries that are sometimes disturbing, […]

Fourth paroxysm of Etna and a 4-hole eruption

Posted on 21/02/2021 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

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 and in the night between 20th and 21st February gave start to the fourth explosive episode. This time it was very […]

Mt Etna eruption, new update

Posted on 19/02/2021 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

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. The signals are initially almost harmless … a few snorts, dancing tremors. Then everything suddenly increases, as is now “tradition”. At […]