lava flows Archives

Saro Ruspa: Etna’s “super hero”

Posted on 09/12/2024 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

There are men who are born to become heroes … and when they become heroes, then they manage not to get a big head and remain the simple and genuine people they have always been. We call them “hidden angels”, we call them “mysterious Clark Kents” … in Catania, we call them like him: Saro […]

The “Fire October” at Piano Provenzana

Posted on 27/10/2024 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The end of October is always a special moment on Mount Etna. Not only because the autumn season gives its best, with unique colours and scents, but also because it celebrates an important anniversary. That of the “perfect eruption”. This eruption that occurred in October 2002 was among the most powerful ever recorded on the […]

Is this a real volcano?

Posted on 26/08/2024 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is a volcano. We all know it, we can see it clearly and it certainly does not allow us to forget it with its periodic and spectacular eruptions. The conical shape, the summit craters, the constantly visible smoke … these characteristics are common to many other similar mountains. We easily recognize a volcano: […]

Powerful roars and lots of ash: Etna show

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

Roars, puffs, column of ash…! It all seemed over but as we often say… it’s Etna that decides. And always surprising. And so the eruptive activity of the Voragine crater (video by Michele Mammino here) after about 24 hours of pause resumed with force around 2 am on July 7th, to continue until 9 am […]

Etna: the great Voragine eruption started

Posted on 04/07/2024 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The Institute of Volcanology (INGV) statement took a while to arrive, but in the end it declared what all of us inhabitants – and lucky tourists – were already seeing. The explosive activity of the Voragine crater, one of the four summits of Etna, increased dramatically during the afternoon and evolved into a lava fountain […]