Etna activity Archives

Mount Etna, great eruption on December 1st

Posted on 01/12/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The mystery is solved! Mount Etna’s strange behavior in the last two weeks was revealed in a new, grandiose eruptive paroxysm on the afternoon of December 1st, 2023. The phenomenon began around 5pm, with small explosions from the usual South-East crater which initially did not look suspicious… given that the volcano had been repeating these […]

November 2023: how is Mt Etna changing?

Posted on 27/11/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

But … what is Etna up to? What’s happening to our volcano? After having accustomed us to a precise “standard” with its historical and recent eruptions, now it seems it is experimenting. From 2018 to today it has changed its behavior several times and the latest news, from 12 November 2023, are these mini “Strombolian” […]

Mount Etna, what’s going on?

Posted on 24/11/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

What is going on, on Mount Etna? After the last paroxysm, the one dated November 12th, the volcano seems to have changed its “style” for the umpteenth time. After an apparent return to calm, INGV volcanologists noticed – starting from November 19th – a strange “behavior”. Etna imitates Stromboli Anyone who has seen Stromboli knows […]

Mt Etna on eruption on November 12th evening

Posted on 12/11/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The eruption that everyone had been waiting for for two days finally started on the afternoon of November 12th. After a morning of intense degassing and a drastic increase in volcanic tremor, Mount Etna gave signs of maximum agitation starting from 3 pm. Two hours later the new paroxysm began which is still ongoing in […]

Mount Etna, a new eruption on its way

Posted on 10/11/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Finally, the lava appeared! It did it without any stress, without particular excitement. After three months of modest puffs, rings of vapour and tensions that almost all came from the Bocca Nuova crater, on the evening of November 10th it was the South East crater (SEC) that gave life to lively lava fountains. Small ones, […]