Etna 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 […]

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 […]

Halloween mask “Etna style”: here’s how to create it

Posted on 30/10/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Even if it doesn’t seem like it, Mount Etna is also a place of magic linked to mysteries. There are stories of ghosts of queens who lost their slipper here, there are stories of mysterious sounds heard in Valle del Bove, and for some years mysterious sculptures have appeared among the most beautiful birch trees. […]

Walking in the woods, with or without a stick?

Posted on 23/10/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

What’s more relaxing than a nice walk in the woods? Nothing, if you have that unbridled desire to immerse yourself in nature with every fiber. The woods are almost always an arduous path, given that they are in the mountains or in any case at high altitudes. If the woods are part of the territory […]