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Surprise Etna! On eruption again

Posted on 24/03/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

It had to be all over, they had to be the last breaths of an eruptive event that seemed to never end … and for four days in fact Mount Etna fell into silence. No more fountains, no more roars. Tremor decreasing. End of the eruption? Maybe. At the INGV they never get out of […]

Mount Etna’s flowers, which ones to admire in Spring

Posted on 22/03/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Apart from eruptions, Mount Etna is a whole universe to discover. Every season is magical on this volcano, from the days of snow to those of sun and flowers. Among endemic plants and foreign plants, which have found a home here, Etna is very rich in wild vegetation and beautiful colors. The flowers that fill […]

Mount Etna’s eruption coming to an end?

Posted on 22/03/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The fifteenth paroxysm of Etna was announced at dawn on March 19 with two very strong “booms” that surprised the piedmont populations, from behind the clouds of rain and snow that hid the volcano. As usual, shortly thereafter, the roars, the lava fountains and the rain of black ash began which this time affected the northern […]

Mount Etna roars on paroxysm 14

Posted on 17/03/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Roars and show! Etna crosses the record line of 14 paroxysms in a month, still following the sequence of strong explosions. It all began on February 16th, 2021, and continued, constantly, at the rate of one event every two days. Paroxysm umber 14 arrives on the night of March 17th, with a surge of volcanic […]

Etna Eruption 2021: Current Situation

Posted on 15/03/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Despite being an always active volcano and always ready to show off its eruptions, Mount Etna now seems to have taken a strange “acceleration”. Restless since 2019, lively in 2020, from January 2021 it began to trigger eruptive episodes with a very particular frequency. First, it was a paroxysm every 24 hours, then the interval became […]