Eruption Archives

Etna: the eruption is going to end, but …

Posted on 20/02/2025 (20/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Twelve days after the start of the effusive eruption on Mount Etna, it seems that everything is about to end. The phenomenon started from a fracture at the base of the Bocca Nuova crater on February 8, has produced – in almost two weeks – a long lava flow that has descended on the western […]

Eruption from Bocca Nuova: updating

Posted on 10/02/2025 (10/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The bad weather that has been persisting for three days in Eastern Sicily is blocking the view of this new eruption, which began on February 8th on the western side of Mt Etna. Therefore, it is almost impossible to follow its evolution live. But it is possible to rely on the instruments and data of […]

Etna, new eruption between craters South East and Bocca Nuova

Posted on 08/02/2025 (08/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna back to activity on the night between February 8th and 9th. Not really a surprise, this time, given that in recent days the volcano had made itself felt with several seismic shocks located, mostly, on the south-western flank. However, there had been no major signals at the summit level, as had instead occurred […]

Rituals for Good Luck: from burning branches to fireworks

Posted on 30/12/2024 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

In a short time, the first hour of the New Year will strike, with the twelve strokes of midnight, and everyone – wherever we are, whatever our beliefs – will celebrate this event with lights, torches, fires and “firecrackers”. There’s no point in pretending… fire is fascinating. And it has always fascinated precisely because of […]

Mount Etna, a November eruption in the clouds

Posted on 10/11/2024 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

It took advantage of it, as often happens, away from prying eyes, behind the clouds of November storms. Mount Etna, which loves to surprise, started an eruption on the morning of November 10 while the world was enjoying, in the warmth, the first real Sunday of autumn. The news spread first on social media … […]