Eruption Archives

Eruption hunters: how to admire this event safely

Posted on 22/05/2022 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Once upon a time, volcanoes erupted suddenly. In the sense that no one could – or knew – how to recognize the signs. Over the centuries, people living on volcanoes have learned to understand their “language”. The farmers, the forest guards simply by walking and living on the territory understood when something changed. When the […]

The Valley of the Lion

Posted on 16/05/2022 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Guides and tough, brave hikers already knew it. Many people are just discovering about it right now, because of the new eruption of this May 2022. The mini volcanic event that started from the South East Crater of Mount Etna is pouring a stream of lava into the Valle del Leone (the Valley of the […]

Mount Etna, new fracture and lava stream on May 2022

Posted on 15/05/2022 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna had announced a new event in preparation by the continuous oscillation of the volcanic tremor line. Since the beginning of May, the line of vibrations had been rising and falling continuously, suggesting another violent paroxysm on the way. Instead, once again the unpredictable volcano amazed its “fans” – both locals and tourists – […]

Mascali risen from the lava

Posted on 09/05/2022 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Mascali rises in the middle of the woods, and from the woods it took its Greek name (which means “something bushy”). But the woods you see today around the town, overlooking the eastern coast of Sicily, are not the same millenarians that saw it a sit was born. These trees have risen amidst recent lava […]

Let’s learn something about pyroclastic flows

Posted on 28/03/2022 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

When we talk about pyroclastic flows, two terrifying images come to mind: Mount Vesuvius in Italy and Mount Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia. We know about the first one, and the eruption that buried Pompeii, only thanks to the chronicles written in ancient times. The second, instead, erupted in 1985 and the world witnessed live […]