Mount Etna, the rambunctious volcano on the Italian island of Sicily, grumbled again to life on Monday, spewing scorching ash and lava in a pyroclastic movement, the nation’s volcano monitoring physique stated. There was no rapid report of any threat to the native inhabitants, which is accustomed to Etna’s frequent eruptions, or to air journey.
The volcano division, which is run by Italy’s Nationwide Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology, famous on Monday “explosions of increasing intensity” that it stated have been “almost continuous.”
By midday native time, INGV Vulcani stated in a social media publish that the “explosive activity from the Southeast Crater has become a lava fountain,” and infrared pictures posted by the group confirmed the movement of lava down the mountain’s face.
Video shared earlier on the institute’s Fb web page confirmed a large plume of smoke and ash rising into the clear blue sky.
Mount Etna is taken into account probably the most lively volcano in Europe, and probably the most lively stratovolcano on the earth. A stratovolcano — what many individuals consider once they hear the phrase volcano — is the conical sort, typically with a central crater, that’s fashioned by layer upon layer of lava from repeated eruptions over the millennia.
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Etna had a big eruption simply over a yr in the past, when it handled watchers to uncommon ring-like clouds puffed out by its crater, generally known as vortex bubbles. (See the video on the high of this text.)
Etna has erupted not less than as soon as yearly for the previous a number of years, generally overlaying close by cities in a layer of volcanic mud, however inflicting no main issues in any other case.
