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Frequent paroxysms on Mount Etna, what happens?

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 […]

Women of Etna

Posted on 08/03/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna, for its people, is a woman. It is female, like a mother. A strict mother who always wants sacrifices but still will repay at the right time with great generosity. If you were born on this volcano and grew up here – or if you chose to live here – you will feel […]

Etna, paroxysm 8: update

Posted on 02/03/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

It happens at around noon on March 2nd, yet another surprise from Mount Etna. A rapid rise in the tremor, the announcement live by the INGV and shortly thereafter the South East Crater was again the protagonist of a paroxysm – the eighth – once again of considerable power. Lava fountains pushed to great heights, […]

Discovering Salina

Posted on 01/03/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Salina is the second largest island of the Aeolian Islands but also the one that hosts the highest peak of the archipelago, Mount Fossa delle Felci (962 meters above sea level). This is also the only island of the Aeolians to be detached from the municipality of Lipari. It is divided into three administrative units: […]

Mt Etna update on February 27th and 28th

Posted on 27/02/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

After a week of fire and lava, explosions and violent tremors, Mount Etna hasn’t expressed anything for 48 hours. A silence that amazes and leaves the many “fans” waiting with cell phones in hand, but it does not upset the INGV volcanologists that much. There is a break, perhaps even a long one. It could […]