Etna activity Archives

The current eruption’s show

Posted on 22/12/2020 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna show continues! The eruption that began on St.Lucy’s Night 13 December 2020, in the summit area of the volcano does not seem to have respite yet. The experts had sensed it in the previous days, despite the many variations that occurred. After a short period of calm and decline in parameters, on December […]

Etna Current Eruption 2020

Posted on 14/12/2020 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The eruption on Saint Lucy’s Night started as a surprise, for many people who were looking at it from home. It was not a surprise for the “insiders”. The experts volcanologists in fact had been monitoring the tremors since afternoon of December 13th. As the clouds opened, at 11:30 pm, the whole Eastern Sicily could […]

Mt. Etna, new eruption of South East Crater

Posted on 06/12/2020 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Something is changing to south east! From the end of November, the explosive activity that has now characterized the summit of Mt. Etna for almost one year has intensified. It is now involving also the youngest of the five craters. Or we should say four, as something is really going on up there. In fact, […]

Eruption of 1971, the hell on Mt Etna

Posted on 05/10/2020 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

What happened on Mt Etna in 1971 was not “just an eruption“. It was part of hell that seemed to have fallen on the volcano. At the same time, it was a great show of nature. There were no safety laws, back then, so many people had the chance to get close to the lava […]

Milo, the small Fornazzo chapel in the hug of the lava

Posted on 03/08/2020 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Going on with our itinerary of the Etnean churches buried or touched by the lava, we will visit the Sacro Cuore. After the surprising churches of Nunziata, Mompileri and Campanarazzu there we go along the road leading from the eastern flank to Etna North. You take it in the village of Fornazzo, a part of […]