Etna activity Archives

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 […]

Frequent paroxysms on Mount Etna, what happens?

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

Mt Etna eruption, update 7th March

Posted on 07/03/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

On the morning of March 7th, 2021, above a cloudy and rainy sky, Mt Etna unleashes the tenth eruptive paroxysm. It caused a giant cloud of ash and lapilli to fall on Milo, Giarre and Riposto. In the photo alongside (from Gianni Pennisi’s facebook page), the main street of the city of Giarre. From Cathedral […]

Etna, new show and a new crater too

Posted on 04/03/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The early hours of dawn on March 4, 2021 began with signs of restlessness in the usual South East Crater. They mainly manifest themselves around 7 am with the opening of a new small crater at the base of the SEC cone. From the new crater a small, poorly fed lava flow starts and runs […]

Etna, paroxysm 8: update

Posted on 02/03/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

It happens at around noon on March 2nd, yet another surprise from Mount Etna. A rapid rise in the tremor, the announcement live by the INGV and shortly thereafter the South East Crater was again the protagonist of a paroxysm – the eighth – once again of considerable power. Lava fountains pushed to great heights, […]