He Etnathe most active volcano of the European plaque and located in the Italian island of Sicilyhas entered again into rash. Strong explosions, smoke columns and a pyroclastic material on his southeast slope.
He National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology He is controlling the situation and, in his last bulletin, he has confirmed with his thermal chambers the presence of pyroclastic flows, casts with lava and gases that moves at the ground level.
What are pyroclastic casts?
That a volcano, like this, has pyroclastic casts means that it has emitted flows with Very hot mixtures of ashes gases and rock fragments that descend down the slopes of the volcano at high speed.
The flow, according to the observatory, has probably been produced by the collapse of a part of the southeast crater but “the hot material seems not to have exceeded” the Lion Valleythat hikers usually cross in their ascent to ETNA.
The first notification of some change occurred at 2.39 local time (00.39 GMT) last night, when he warned of “A sudden variation of the parameters” at a height of 2,800 meters in this huge and very active Sicilian volcano.
Then they detected Strombolian activity, A type of eruption characterized by flashing explosions that launch into the air Incandescent lava fragments, ashes and gases. They also detected “a gradual increase” of tremors.
In the last part, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology has warned that explosive activity in the Southeast Crater has resulted in Lava rashes and volcanic tremor has reached “very high values.”
The eruption is such that it could be perfectly observed from the nearby city of Catania.
