Etna, new show and a new crater too
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…
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Etna, paroxysm 8: update
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…
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Discovering Salina
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…
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Mt Etna update on February 27th and 28th
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,…
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Etna goes on with the sixth paroxysm
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…
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Mount Etna Show, as you had never seen it before
"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…
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Etna, paroxysm number five
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…
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Mysteries of Agrigento
How do those millenary temples manage to resist over the centuries? What is the Devil's Letter? And what do the Crusaders have to do with the city of almond trees in bloom? Agrigento is…
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Fourth paroxysm of Etna and a 4-hole eruption
As widely predicted by the Institute of Volcanology of Catania, Mount Etna had not yet finished to amaze and a new paroxysm was waiting after the previous three. The volcano did not betray expectations…
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Mt Etna eruption, new update
Etna gives no respite, and does not seem to have any itself. At 9 am on February 19, the volcano becomes restless to the point that the Institute of Volcanology immediately goes into alert.…
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