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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, 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 […]

Etna goes on with the sixth paroxysm

Posted on 24/02/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Sixth paroxysm of Mt. Etna, as everyone expected and hoped for. Less than 24 hours later, after the paroxysm of the night between 22 and 23 February 2021, Etna resumes the show. Now it has no restraint, it decides, leaves and gives a show with different scripts from time to time. On the evening of […]

Mount Etna Show, as you had never seen it before

Posted on 23/02/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

“We volcanologists of long experience were just watching in amazement ….” These words of Dr. Boris Behncke are good enough to describe and make us understand what the paroxysm of Mt. Etna on February 23rd night was (video by Michele Mammino here). An unprecedented show! No matter how many volcanic episodes one may have seen, […]

Etna, paroxysm number five

Posted on 23/02/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Without brakes, but with a now constant pace, Mount Etna continues its daily eruptions. In the late evening of today, Monday 22 February 2021, the volcano thunders again in the dark. The INGV press release brings the time of 22:56 when it informs everyone that: “there is an increase in frequency and intensity of Strombolian […]