Eruption Archives

Mt Etna’s winter place 2: Ripe della Naca

Posted on 07/01/2024 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The location called “le Ripe della Naca” (the ropes of the cradle), on the eastern side of Mount Etna, is always suggestive and fascinating, in every season. But seeing and experiencing it in winter, possibly with snow, is an emotional experience you won’t easily forget. These “ropes” are actually enormous “waterfalls of lava” that poured […]

What if Bocca Nuova Crater erupted… ?

Posted on 30/12/2023 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

It’s been having fun for months now, creating its amazing gas rings calmly and happily… the Bocca Nuova Crater has been trying to get noticed for a while. Not that it needs it, given that it is one of Mount Etna’s oldest and largest “vents”. But it’s as if it wants to remind everyone that […]

Lava fountains and explosions, is there a difference?

Posted on 11/12/2023 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is a wonderful sight that everyone would like to admire, one time or another. It is not the classic volcano that produces long lava flows – except in rare cases – but it expresses the characteristics of many volcanoes all together. The volcanologists of Catania say they are “lucky” to have such an […]

Mount Etna, great eruption on December 1st

Posted on 01/12/2023 (20/12/2024) 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 (20/12/2024) 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” […]