Eruption Archives

Mount Etna roars on paroxysm 14

Posted on 17/03/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Roars and show! Etna crosses the record line of 14 paroxysms in a month, still following the sequence of strong explosions. It all began on February 16th, 2021, and continued, constantly, at the rate of one event every two days. Paroxysm umber 14 arrives on the night of March 17th, with a surge of volcanic […]

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 […]