It is well known that the volcanic gas is the main controlling factor during an eruption. It’s the gas that drives the magma from the deep to the shallower layers and then until the surface. It’s the gas ruling the style of the eruption, whether explosive or effusive. In summary the range of behaviours of […]
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, […]
