UPDATE May 29th, 2020 The excursions will start again on Monday 1st June. We look forward to meet you on the volcano! UPDATE May 18th, 2020 Despite most of the activities reopen today in Italy, the Guides are not allowed to work. We expect some new guidelines in the next few days. UPDATE May 3rd, 2020 […]
Last summer I have been travelling in Indonesia; it was my first visit there. The main reason for the visit was to climb some volcanoes, as Indonesia is the most volcano-crowded country. Indonesia is a very fascinating place, with a wild and overwhelming nature, kind people with great culture and traditions. Here the galleries about the […]
In the early hours of May 30, the sensors of the monitoring network of the Italian Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) recorded a sudden increase of the volcanic tremors, a signal usually associated with shallow movements of magmatic fluids. At 5:35 am, local time, two effusive fissures opened at the southeastern and northern base […]
On December 26, 2018, at 3:19 AM (local time), a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck the lower eastern flank of Mount Etna. The earthquake was the strongest in a period of intense seismic activity, and came two days later the beginning of a brief flank eruption begun on Dec. 24. The earthquake caused an almost continue […]
In the morning of today (Feb. 8, 2019) explosive activity at the North-East crater was reported. The ash clouds are pushed by the wind toward SE and the fallout covers the snowy ground. Check live webcam Picture taken from the Catania-Messina motorway
