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Etna Eruption 2021: Current Situation

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 became […]

Frequent paroxysms on Mount Etna, what happens?

Posted on 15/03/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

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, […]

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, […]