The smoke rises from the Crater of the Etna volcano as it bursts, on Mount Etna near Catania, Italy on Monday. A huge plume of ash, gas and rock has believed in the highest active volcano in Europe.
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The Italian Etna of Mount produced a spectacularly explosive eruption on Monday morning, sending a ripple of reddish clouds from its summit. The booming ash has increased to form a cloud of fungi above ETNA, the highest active volcano in Europe, triggering a red alert for aviation teams in the region.
The Etna Observatory of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Catania estimated the height of the volcanic cloud at around 21,325 feet. The huge ash cloud moved in a west-southwest direction, according to the agency, known as Ingv.
The dramatic scene of the southeast crater of Etna was taken on several webcams, spreading quickly on social networks. As we can see in a webcam weather video in Sicily, the eruption quickly went from a few lava flows to boiling and smoke cascades that increased in a large cloud.
Fortunately, the eruption does not seem to have had an immediate impact on the people of the region, apart from forcing those responsible to stop tourist visits to the volcano, which is a popular destination and is located on the east coast of Sicily.
Managers believe that a large part of the crater collapsed, according to the Italian news agency Ansa.
Aviation alerts were later attenuated on Monday while Ingv said that volcanic activity and ash emissions finally decreased. With the ash cloud moving west, the operations of Vincenzo Bellini Catania airport, due to the south of Etna, were not affected.
It is not unusual for Etna to emit lava and gases from its summit craters. Etna is “the most active stratovolcano in the world that has continuously pumped the ashes and lava” for thousands of years, according to the United Nations. (A stratovolcano, also known as the composite volcano, is often steep and conical, according to the US Geological Survey. On the other hand, the volcano shield, like Mauna Loa in Hawaii, is larger but with a more progressive slope.)
Etna has a long history of frequent eruptions, documented at least at 1500 BC
Most Etna eruptions are “Strombolian eruptions” – ejections of ash, gas and melted lava that result from repeated, but relatively small explosions.
“Strombolie activity generally affects a limited area around the vent and is not a risk agent [to] A built zone “around Etna, according to the Department of Civil Protection of Italy. Etna lava flows are also normally viscous and slow, often allowing authorities to intervene to redirect the flows that threaten communities.
Etna’s eruptions have produced striking scenes over the years, from a nighttime display in 2011 to an explosion that preceded an earthquake in 2018.
