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Etna activity
Things are getting complicated up there on the front of Etna's new eruption—which began on the morning of August 6th and is still ongoing. Indeed, while the situation was already challenging, with paroxysms at…
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Etna activity
Mount Etna is "singing" again, and it's doing so like a tenor, with a new eruption involving the Voragine crater. On the morning of August 7th, this eruption also saw the reopening of a…
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Etna activity
The new, sudden eruption of Mount Etna, which began at dawn on July 30, officially ended on August 1st. It was an eruption that had started like many others... increased tremors, paroxysm with lava…
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Etna activity
This time it was a real surprise! Almost no one expected the Etna eruption that began at dawn on July 30, 2026, except perhaps volcanologists and a few avid readers of volcanic tremor graphs.…
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Bivouac or refuge? At first glance, they seem more or less the same thing, but they're not. Generally speaking, they aren't, and especially on Mount Etna, there's a fundamental difference between the two that…
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Castiglione di Sicilia is one of the most charming villages in eastern Sicily, located in the metropolitan district of Catania, on the slopes of Mount Etna and within the picturesque Alcantara Valley. Mass tourism…
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The eruption that had tour operators across the Ionian coast of Catania buzzing in early July appears to have ended, as unexpectedly as it began. The eruptive events involving the Voragine crater and its…
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This time, it seems to have really started. On the morning of Sunday, July 5, 2026, around 9:00 a.m., a tall column of ash rose from the summit of Mount Etna, surprising all…
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What's happening to the Voragine? This is the question we're all wondering about—ordinary citizens, tourists, and experts—when we gaze at the summit of Etna. Its highest peak, the Voragine crater, which has broken a…
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June 21st should be a date to celebrate in Sicily. Or at least in the Catania area. In fact, on June 21, 2013—thirteen years ago— Mount Etna was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage…
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