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 […]
On March 11, 2019 will fall the 350th anniversary of the greatest eruption occurred at Mt. Etna in historic time. It was a flank eruption connected to the SE rift: explosive craters formed at about 800 m asl (today called “Monti Rossi”) and a lava flow spread southwards reaching the coast in correspondence of the […]
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
I was born thirty years ago in Sicily, at the shadow of Mount Etna Volcano. Since I was I little boy I was fascinated by “the always-changing mountain” that I could observe from my town. Growing up I begun to explore the volcano: the forests, the ancient craters, the lava fields after the new eruption, […]
