quote:Etna eruption
SICILY, ITALY (BNO NEWS) -- Mount Etna, which is located on the east coast of the Italian island of Sicily, briefly erupted on late Wednesday evening, volcanists and witnesses said on Thursday.
Etna is the largest active volcano in Europe with a standing of 3,329 meters (10,922 feet) high. It is also one of the most active volcanoes in the world and has seen increased activity in recent months
On Tuesday evening, the country's Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said it had recorded a slight increase in volcanic tremors that reached its peak by 7 a.m. local time on Wednesday. It then quickly diminished.
Hours later, at around 9.30 p.m. local time on Wednesday, a small eruption at Mount Etna sent lava down the mountain. "Shortly after [9 p.m.] an overflow began from the edge of the east pit crater," a statement from the institute said, adding that the lava flow was expanding in the direction of Valle del Bove.
The eruption of Etna lasted only about an hour although the lava flow remained visible as of Thursday morning, lighting up the sky but posing no threat to the towns and cities near the volcano.
As it was dark at the time of the eruption, it was not immediately clear if Etna had created an ash cloud. "The emission of volcanic ash is possible," the institute added.
quote:Red sky at night... Sicily looks on as Mount Etna erupts in spectacular fashion
After reports of mysterious mass animal deaths around the planet, photos of a fierce volcanic eruption might confirm that the end of the world is nigh.
Thankfully, these magnificent pictures of Mount Etna's latest eruption are merely a chance to revel in the awesome power of nature rather than a reason to start stocking up on canned goods.
The 3,329-metre (10,922-feet) volcano erupted for around an hour yesterday evening, lighting up the sky on the small Italian island of Sicily.
Etna is Europe's tallest and most active volcano and has seen increased activity in recent months yet its seismic might poses no immediate threat to the nearby towns and cities.
According to the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, a slight increase in Etna's volcanic tremors had been recorded on Tuesday, reaching its peak at 7am local time yesterday.
The activity diminished but at 9:30pm local time on Wednesday night, Etna roared into life sending lava spewing down its sides.
'Shortly after [9pm] an overflow began from the edge of the east pit crater,' a statement from the institute said last night.
While the Sicilian communities near the volcano were not threatened by the latest eruption, it has not been established whether an ash cloud has been created by Etna's new activity.
'The emission of volcanic ash is possible,' a spokesperson for the institute added.
Large stones, known as volcanic 'bombs', and a sizeable quantity of ash was released by the volcano earlier this month, though no lava was released on that occasion.
Known as 'Jebel Utlamat' in Arabic - meaning 'mountain of fire - Etna's name is thought to originate from the Phoenician word 'attuna', meaning 'furnace'.
The volcano has been active for around half a million years, with 15,000 people killed during its most violent eruption in 1669.
While its modern eruptions have rarely threatened the inhabited areas in the volcano's vicinity, a lengthy blast in 2002 was spectacular enough for footage of it to be included in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
Dat lijkt me geen prettig uitzicht als je daar woont.quote:Op donderdag 13 januari 2011 10:28 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
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Hij barst vrij vaak uit, mensen zijn wel wat gewend daarquote:Op donderdag 13 januari 2011 14:28 schreef Desunoto het volgende:
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Dat lijkt me geen prettig uitzicht als je daar woont.
Maar wel imposant.![]()
Als ze de mensen maar op tijd weg kunnen krijgen, als er een grotere uitbarsting volgt.
quote:Etna calmed down after renewed activity?
Mount Etna, one of most the active volcanoes in the world, calmed down after two days of activity.
Volcano experts said Monday in a report the volcano in Italy might have fallen back into a short calm phase before another active phase, “just around the corner.”
The 11,000-foot tall volcano had a collection of black smoke more than 2 miles high and spewed lava and shards of magma more than 1,200 feet into the air on Sunday before it calmed down.
The wind carried eruption fragments to towns of the large Sicilian city, Catania, but flight operations at the city were not affected.
quote:Etna roert zich weer
De grootste nog actieve vulkaan van Europa, de Etna, heeft zich de voorbije nacht geroerd op Sicilië. In de vroege ochtend werden zes explosies, gepaard met kleine aardbevingen tussen de 2,7 en 3,2 op de schaal van Richter, gevoeld. Niets ernstigs, ware het niet dat de Giro-karavaan komende zondag twee keer de Etna moet bedwingen. Opnieuw onvoorziene problemen dus voor de fel geplaagde Giro-baas Angelo Zomegnan.
De luchthaven van Fontanarossa in Catanië is net voor de middag weer gedeeltelijk opengesteld voor de reizigers nadat de vliegtuigen een hele voormiddag aan de grond werden gehouden door de aswolk die boven Catania hing. De activiteit van de Etna verhoogde de voorbije nacht. Door de forse explosies barstten ramen en deuren uit hun voegen. Grote schade werd er niet aangericht.
"De etappe van zondag komt niet in het gedrang", predikt Zomegnan rust. "Er zijn al mensen aan het werk om de wegen die naar de top leiden, vrij te maken. We zijn niet ongerust." In de Italiaanse pers klinken de stemmen wat pessimistischer. Er is immers een kleine vrees dat de Giro-ploegen Sicilië niet met het vliegtuig zullen kunnen bereiken, wat hen heel wat minder recuperatie zal bezorgen in de aanloop naar de zondagrit. Na de zaterdagrit met aankomst in Tropea (Calabrië) moeten de renners per vliegtuig naar Messina, de startplaats zondag op het eiland Sicilië.
Monte Crostis
Garmin-Cervélo maakt zich inmiddels meer en meer zorgen over de veiligheid van de renners. Ex-rozetruidrager David Millar stapte samen met zijn ploegmakkers Brett Lancaster en Matthew Wilson naar de organisatie met de uitdrukkelijke vraag om iets te doen aan de aartsgevaarlijke afdaling van de Monte Crostis, in de beestachtige 14e rit.
"We hebben gehoord dat er zoals in het skiën netten zullen worden gespannen om ons op te vangen als we een bocht missen. Sommige bochten liggen op een klif", zucht Millar. De Schot hoopt dat de organisatie alsnog ingrijpt. "Als Zomegnan even nadenkt, weet ik zeker dat hij de juiste beslissing zal nemen. We zijn overeengekomen geen onnodige risicio's te pakken." (dea)
Contador heb gewonnenquote:Het vliegveld van Catania op het Italiaanse eiland Sicilië is gesloten. De luchthavendirectie heeft uit voorzorg daartoe besloten. De nabijgelegen vulkaan Etna spuwt sinds woensdagavond as en lava uit. Vrijdagochtend worden de vluchten wellicht hervat, meldde het Italiaanse persbureau ANSA.
In de nacht van woensdag op donderdag was de uitbarsting het hevigst. Naast de aswolken en lava waren er flinke bevingen. De lavastroom bleef echter gering en het meeste stroomde naar onbewoonde gebieden. De situatie wordt met behulp van helikopters permanent bewaakt door het Italiaanse Instituut voor Geofysica en Vulkanologie.
De wielrenners in de Ronde van Italië rijden zondag op Sicilië. De etappe eindigt dan op de flanken van de Etna. Er zijn schoonmaakploegen aangesteld om de as van de wegen te vegen voordat de renners arriveren. (anp/kve)
quote:Eruption Etna linked to quake in Spain
ROME, May 12 (Xinhua) -- The eruption of the Etna volcano in southern Italy early Thursday is connected to the earthquakes that rocked the Spanish region of Murcia, killing 12 people and injuring more than 170 others, a seismology expert said Thursday.
"We are currently witnessing an intense seismic activity in the entire Mediterranean area from Spain all the way to Malta which has a certain impact on regional volcanoes," said Domenico Patane, director of the Sicily office of Italy s National Geophysics Institute.
Patane said volcanoes are like windows from where underground magma surfaces and it's normal that they respond to earthquakes occurring in a geographic proximity.
"The Spanish eastern coast hit by the quake, after all, lies close to Italy, in the Mediterranean. Both Spain and Sicily are on the same earth plate," he said.
The earthquakes in Spain on Wednesday, which could be felt in Madrid, reportedly had their epicenter near the towns of Lorca and Totana in the Murcia region. The initial tremor of 4.4 magnitude was followed by a quake of about 5.2 magnitude.
Around 2 a.m. Thursday people in Sicily felt the earth slightly tremble and heard the sound of an explosion coming from Etna's pit crater. < The eruption sent flying massive quantities of lava and volcanic ash, which spilled on the main town of Catania and other nearby villages but luckily caused no serious damage.
The central airport was forced to close after it was submerged by the ash.
Patane said there were no severe risks for local inhabitants but just for buildings and infrastructures that could be damaged by the ash and condensed lava.
"It's normal to have frequent small-scale quakes and minor volcano eruptions in the Mediterranean," he said, "We're used to seismic activity here in Sicily and recently several minor shocks have been felt also across the whole of Italy."
Mount Etna is the highest active volcano in Europe, with a 45-kilometer-diameter crater.
quote:Quick post - you might want to watch some of the Etna webcams as the volcano looks like it might be starting to put on a show. Dr. Boris Behncke has been warning us that the volcano has been showing signs - such as small explosions - that a new eruptive period might be starting, and it looks like tonight might be the time. You can check out the seismicity as well to see the action begin to ramp up.
quote:(AGI) Palermo - An uncountable series of quakes have been recorded in Sicily. The strongest one had a magnitude of 3.1 and was recorded in the province of Messina, along the northern coast of Sicily that has been subjected to a persisting series of seismic events in the last few weeks. The quake was detected 3:01 am at a depth of a little more than 8 km. In the same area, a lighter 2.3 magnitude quake was recorded at 1:58 at approximately the same depth. . .
Veel kleine bevinkjes de afgelopen dagen.. dus er staat misschien wat te gebeurenquote:2218355100 2011/07/08 13:11:11 38.029 14.77 7.6 Ml:2.4 Costa_siciliana_settetrionale
2218354520 2011/07/08 12:12:10 42.224 7.981 37.7 Ml:2.6 Corsica
2218353960 2011/07/08 11:16:49 41.757 16.052 7.1 Ml:2 Promontorio_del_Gargano
2218353260 2011/07/08 10:06:58 42.472 13.321 9.7 Ml:2.7 Gran_Sasso
2218349470 2011/07/08 03:47:36 38.413 16.265 19.2 Ml:2.1 Le_Serre
2218345570 2011/07/07 21:17:21 45.37 10.108 142.3 Ml:2.3 Pianura_padana_lombarda
2218345270 2011/07/07 20:47:20 42.402 12.858 8.3 Ml:2.1 Reatino
2218345190 2011/07/07 20:39:31 42.204 8.272 69.8 Ml:2.3 Corsica
2218345080 2011/07/07 20:28:25 42.092 8.15 34.1 Ml:2.3 Corsica
1218344841 2011/07/07 20:04:18 42.406 8.015 4.3 Ml:2.6 Corsica
2218344410 2011/07/07 19:21:50 42.406 7.877 38.1 Ml:4.7 Western Mediterranean Sea
2218343050 2011/07/07 17:06:06 37.763 14.423 33.5 Ml:2.4 Monti_Nebrodi
2218342480 2011/07/07 16:08:59 37.682 15.16 1.2 Ml:2.3 Etna
2218342280 2011/07/07 15:48:42 43.775 13.909 10 Ml:2.1 Adriatico_centro-sett.
2218341940 2011/07/07 15:15:31 44.354 10.912 23.1 Ml:2.1 Appennino_modenese
2218339430 2011/07/07 11:03:36 37.398 15.011 6.9 Ml:2.3 Piana_di_Catania
2218337610 2011/07/07 08:01:23 45.695 10.893 4 Ml:2.9 Zona_Lago_di_Garda
2218334490 2011/07/07 02:48:58 37.69 15.175 3.7 Ml:2.1 Etna
2218334160 2011/07/07 02:16:17 38.426 16.267 20.4 Ml:2.1 Le_Serre
2218333410 2011/07/07 01:01:15 38.041 14.789 8.3 Ml:3.1 Costa_siciliana_settetrionale
18332780 2011/07/06 23:58:33 38.024 14.765 8.2 Ml:2.3 Costa_siciliana_settetrionale
2218332280 2011/07/06 23:08:23 37.786 14.421 27.6 Ml:2.2 Monti_Nebrodi
2218331800 2011/07/06 22:20:59 42.444 13.291 11 Ml:2.6 Aquilano
2218331360 2011/07/06 21:37:04 42.445 13.283 17.3 Ml:2.5 Aquilano
2218331340 2011/07/06 21:34:52 42.436 13.273 11 Ml:3.3 Aquilano
2218327960 2011/07/06 15:56:07 38.048 14.758 6.2 Ml:2.5 Costa_siciliana_settetrionale
2218326680 2011/07/06 13:48:51 38.031 14.765 9 Ml:2 Costa_siciliana_settetrionale
2218323880 2011/07/06 09:08:38 38.015 14.799 7.5 Ml:3.7 Costa_siciliana_settetrionale
2218321500 2011/07/06 05:10:27 37.685 16.692 50.1 Ml:2.7 Mar_Ionio
2218321070 2011/07/06 04:28:23 38.025 14.766 8 Ml:2.2 Costa_siciliana_settetrionale
2218318840 2011/07/06 00:44:28 38.255 15.024 10 Ml:2.2 Golfi_di_Patti_e_di_Milazzo
Dit zijn twee verschillende gebieden door elkaar,quote:Op vrijdag 8 juli 2011 15:46 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
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Veel kleine bevinkjes de afgelopen dagen.. dus er staat misschien wat te gebeuren
quote:Vulkaanas stuurt vliegverkeer rond etna in de war
As die is uitgestoten door de Siciliaanse vulkaan de Etna heeft de luchthaven van de stad Catania doen sluiten.
Catania ligt slechts 25 kilometer ten zuiden van de vulkaan. De autoriteiten verwachten dat het vliegveld na een grote schoonmaak morgenochten weer geopend kan worden.
De top van de Etna ligt op bijna 3.300 meter. De vulkaan is daarmee de hoogste actieve vulkaan in Europa. De laatste uitbarsting dateert van mei. (afp/adha)
quote:Etna updates
UPDATE 09:45 UTC : Due to the volcanic activity and the ash concentration in the air, the (important) regional airport of Catania was closed since yesterday 18:12 (6:12 PM). The airport reopened this morning at 07:00 ( 7 AM).
UPDATE 08:00 UTC : As stated below, the densely populated Catania area got a lot of ash showers covering cars and roofs with a gray layer.
UPDATE : One video tells more than a 1000 words. This YouTube video was recorded by Klaus Dorschfeldt alias KdEtna. We encourage our readers to take a look at his great Etna Channel on YouTube. The strong eruption was short-lived (see in-depth text below), which explains why there are only daylight videos from this eruption
A few days after the resumption of Strombolian activity at the crater located on the east flank of the Southeast Crater cone, a new paroxysmal eruptive episode has taken place on the afternoon of 9 July 2011.
This was the fifth eruptive episode since the beginning of 2011, and it was of shorter duration than its predecessors, but it produced ash and lapilli falls over the most densely populated area on Etna as far as Catania.
From 4 to 7 July, the active crater has been the site of weak Strombolian activity, which from the evening of 7 July on showed a gradual increase; this was accompanied by a slow augmentation of the volcanic tremor amplitude.
Small pyroclastic cones began to grow on the crater floor. The next morning, the increase in the intensity and frequency, and in the volcanic tremor amplitude, showed a clear acceleration, which seemed to indicate an imminent paroxysm. However, shortly after 06:00 GMT, the volcanic tremor amplitude showed an abrupt diminution, and the Strombolian activity at the active crater completely ceased.
On the morning of 9 July, Strombolian activity resumed, and the volcanic tremor amplitude started to rise rapidly. Shortly after 12:00 GMT, lava overflowed the eastern rim of the crater, and then followed the path of the lava flows emitted during the previous paroxysms. At 13:45 GMT the Strombolian explosions blended into a continuous lava fountain, which was accompanied by the formation of a dense eruption column several kilometers high. The eruption plume, which was heavily charged with tephra, expanded south- and southeastward, leading to ash and lapilli falls in the populated areas between Nicolosi and Catania toward south, and Trecastagni, Viagrande and Acireale toward southeast.
The paroxysmal activity lasted little longer than one hour, feeding a lava flow into the upper western part of the Valle del Bove, and generating strong emission of pyroclastic material; the activity showed a progressive diminution shortly after 15:30 GMT when volcanic tremor amplitude dropped to very low levels.
It has finally to be noted that during the intial phase of the paroxysmal activity, at 13:41 GMT, a powerful explosion at the Bocca Nuova generated an intense ash emission.
quote:Etna spews again on Tuesday
Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, erupted on Tuesday night resulting in the closure of the island’s main airport at Catania.
This is the sixth time that Mount Etna, which is popular among tourists, has erupted in 2011.
The last eruption occurred on Saturday. Italian officials had since said the 11,000-foot-tall volcano, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, had calmed down after a week of activity.
Residents in surrounding areas had been warned however, that the Sicilian volcano might have fallen back into a short-lived slumber and another “active phase may just be around the corner.”
quote:Sicily's Mount Etna erupts
Mount Etna volcano on the island of Sicily, southern Italy, started erupting again at the weekend, sending flames and sparks shooting 250 metres into the air, and flows of lava down its slopes.
There were concerns that the ash could block flights out of nearby Catania airport, but the winds were blowing the ash away from the airport and no flights had been cancelled.
The volcanic activity started on Saturday morning and continued through the day and overnight into Sunday, according to the Italian Institute of Volcanology.
This is the fourth and the biggest eruption in July, after six months of calm, with lava fountains as high as 500 metres.
No casualties or damage to property have been reported.
Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, and in the last few decades eruptions have been very frequent and lava flows have often threatened the villages surrounding the crater.
quote:Etna blijft spuwen
De vulkaan Etna op het Italiaanse eiland Sicilië is al voor de zesde keer in vier weken tot uitbarsting gekomen. Maar dat laten de Italiaanse zonnekloppers niet aan hun hart komen.
Toch zijn er mensen die niet onbewogen blijven bij dit fantastische schouwspel. Sommige toeristen zijn zelfs moedig genoeg om zich vlakbij de hevige actie te wagen voor de perfecte foto.
De jongste uitbarsting begon vorige week vrijdag kort voor middernacht. Naast de lava die vrijkwam, werden aswolken de lucht in gespuwd.
Hoewel de uitbarsting er misschien gevaarlijk uitziet, richt ze geen al te grote schade aan. De lava vloeit immers weg langs kanalen. De aswolk daarentegen is wel hinderlijk voor toeristen en omwonenden. Ook de luchthaven van Catania moest enkele uren sluiten.
Tip: bezoek Stromboli eensquote:Op donderdag 4 augustus 2011 13:20 schreef bloodymary1 het volgende:
Ben er in juni op geweest. Net tussen twee uitbarstingen dus eigenlijk. Lijkt me zo ongelooflijk mooi om te zien en te horen.
quote:Europe's biggest volcano erupts again
Mount Etna is spewing out ash and shooting spectacular bursts of lava high into the air as the eruption on the island of Sicily intensifies.
Italy's Civil Protection agency said Italy's geophysics and volcanology institute on Monday registered increased explosive activity by the volcano, eight days after the latest eruption began.
The government agency says Etna started spewing out a significant amount of ash in a southeast direction early in the day but that the eruption tapered off in about two hours.
Etna has several inhabited villages on its slopes.
Eruptions are not infrequent, and Italian airliners sometimes have to alter their routes to avoid flying through ash cloud. The airport at Catania city near the volcano wasn't affected by the ash Monday.
quote:On the evening of 28 September 2011, the New Southeast Crater of Etna has produced its 15th paroxysmal eruptive episode since the beginning of this year. The culminating phase of this episode lasted less than a half hour but was more violent than those of the preceding paroxysms; on the contrary lava emission was rather minor, forming two small flows that reached the upper part of the steep western slope of the Valle del Bove. The ash plume was driven southwestward by the wind.
quote:http://www.agi.it/english(...)puts on another show
(AGI) Catania - A spectacular eruption is going on the Mount Etna volcano. It is the seventeenth time this year since the new south-eastern crater started being active. At 8,30 p.m.
local time lava flows as high as hundreds of meters could be seen from the Ionic coast. According to the italian national institute of geophysics and volcanology, the crater's activity started forty minutes earlier, when the ash cloud was carried by a moderate wind. The ash cloud caused the airport in Catania to close. . .
3 bevingen in korte tijd, doet de Etna weer boem?quote:2011-11-03 14:54:39.013min ago 38.37 N 14.60 E 9 2.6 SICILY, ITALY
2011-11-03 14:37:10.031min ago 38.38 N 14.56 E 6 3.3 SICILY, ITALY
2011-11-03 14:32:22.035min ago 38.42 N 14.54 E 5 3.6 SICILY, ITALY
quote:18th eruption Etna this year
CATANIA, Italy – The Etna has intensified its activity today with fountains of lava and ash causing restrictions to air traffic. This eighteenth eruption this year has followed the Stromboli pattern as previous ones did and lasted just a couple of hours. The Crisis Unit at the Catania Fonatanrossa Airport met to assess potential consequences for flights and restricted air space until 16.30 without however affecting passenger flights
quote:Etna spuwt as en lava
CATANIA - De vulkaan Etna op Sicilië is donderdag opnieuw uitgebarsten. Lava stroomt richting de regio Valle del Bove, waar geen mensen wonen, en er hangt een aswolk tot een hoogte van 5000 meter. Dat meldden Italiaanse media.
De top van de Etna is op bijna 3300 meter en de vulkaan is daarmee de hoogste actieve vulkaan in Europa. De laatste uitbarsting had plaats in juli. Toen moest de luchthaven van Catania enige tijd worden gesloten
quote:CATANIA / ETNA
Eruption being the first eruption of Etna in 2012. The ash column projected from the crater reached 5 thousand meters high. The operational limitations of the airport of Catania Fontanarossa. A lava flow is moving toward the Valle del Bove. The lava is far from population centers: VIDEO - PICTURE
The crisis unit constantly monitors the winds to understand its evolution. New update to the Crisis Unit 14.
The strombolian activity of Etna has become intense around 22 PM on January 4. There were no earthquakes recorded by INGV in Catania, but only an increase of tremor. Declared "highly critical" in the area.
Mocht je helemaal tot de rand gaan dan? Ik ben dit jaar in juni geweest en we mochten maar tot 2300 meter. Zelfs met gids mocht je niet verder.quote:Op donderdag 5 januari 2012 13:48 schreef Coelho het volgende:
Heb een jaar geleden op de rand van de krater gestaan. Indrukwekkend ter plaatse en zeker ook met dit soort berichten. Het leert je des te meer hoe kwetsbaar wij zijn in vergelijking met de kracht van de natuur...
Ja, eerst met eigen vervoer naar de parkeerplaats bij dat oude ski-dorp (noordoosthelling), 1700m of zo. Daarna met Unimog vrachtwagens naar 3000m en van daar te voet verder naar de krater.quote:Op donderdag 5 januari 2012 13:57 schreef bloodymary1 het volgende:
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Mocht je helemaal tot de rand gaan dan? Ik ben dit jaar in juni geweest en we mochten maar tot 2300 meter. Zelfs met gids mocht je niet verder.
In juni 2009 mocht ik ook tot bij de krater rand op dezelfde wijzequote:Op donderdag 5 januari 2012 14:14 schreef Coelho het volgende:
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Ja, eerst met eigen vervoer naar de parkeerplaats bij dat oude ski-dorp (noordoosthelling), 1700m of zo. Daarna met Unimog vrachtwagens naar 3000m en van daar te voet verder naar de krater.
Leuk detail: mijn auto staat op de foto op google streetview op de parkeerplaats van de Etna.
Benieuwd of we vandaag of morgen een nieuwe eruptie zien bij de Etnaquote:Update 20h15 GMT:
Tremor continues to rise (now at 13), from the webcam image, it seems a lava flow is starting to issue from the SE fracture.
All indicators point towards we are having the 2nd paroxysm in 2012 during the next hours!
The volcanic tremor is now steeply rising (at 8) and vigorous strombolian activity can be seen on the various webcams, possibly a lava flow has started as well.
While strombolian activity continues from the New SE crater of Etna volcano, volcanic tremor has started to rise, suggesting a new paroxysm could be in the making in the next hours, although it is still early to be certain.
The photo (up) from Boris Behncke was taken during the night of 7-8 February 2012, whe the continuing Strombolian activity of the New Southeast Crater on Etna was finally widely visible, after about one week of essentially bad weather.
Some explosions threw incandescent lava bombs outside the crater, although most were rather weak and all material fell back into the crater.
This is a view of one of the stronger explosions observed on the late evening of 7 February 2012, taken from Trecastagni village on the southeast flank of Etna. The activity continued, sometimes vigorously, sometimes more subdued, through the night and morning of 8 February.
quote:Update Tue 21 Feb 21:32
The tremor is still rising, and the signal looks very similar to the initial stages of most paroxysms during the past 13 months. Unless Etna is doing something quite different (which is very possible, too), it seems more and more as if the next eruption could happen very soon.
quote:Update Tue 21 Feb 22:57
Etna is unpredictable. Just after our previous update, the tremor signal (currently the only available indicator) dropped sharply to almost half its value. Probably, no "show" tonight!
quote:New tremor on southern slope of Etna
New earth tremor last night on the southern slope of Etna, in the same area where tremors had already been felt yesterday afternoon. This second seismic event was 2.5 on a Richter scale, like the one felt yesterday and was registered at 4:46 by the National institute of geophysics and volcanology, that pinpointed the epicentre 9.8 kilometres deep between the towns of Belpasso, Biancavilla, Caporotondo Etneo, Nicolosi Paterno', Santa Maria di Licodia and Ragalna. The volcano has originated small flows of lava and high smoke columns since the beginning of the year. . .
quote:Italy’s Etna kept up its frenetic pace of eruptions that started in January 2011 with yet another paroxysm, its fifth of 2012. This one had inkling that might be happen soon with signs on Friday, but the real show occurred overnight on Sunday (April 1) with an early morning eruption. This eruption followed 14 days since the last eruptive spell and lasted about 1.5 hours, producing the sorts of volcanic events we’ve come to expect from Etna: fire fountains, ash fall and lava flows. Dr. Boris Behncke posted some great images of the activity (see above) and Etna Walk also posted some great images and video as well. Eruptions readers caught a lot of the action via the webcams around Etna (see below). You can watch some of the timelapse of the activity put together by Eruptions reader Georaving that show the opening phases of strombolian explosions that give way to fire fountains and lava flows. Spectacular action all around!
Etna Webcamquote:Update 13:36 UTC : Volcanic tremor is on the rise at this moment and an eruption has started. A lava flow is flowing down the slope. Click here for the best webcams. Follow the eruption today. Etna erupts regularly with short strong eruptions (paroxysms)
Er zit gewoon enorme druk achter zo te zien, dat zich in de lopende tijd heeft opgebouwd.quote:Op vrijdag 13 april 2012 23:27 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
JA zeer spectaculair. Wat ik me afvroeg is de lava bij Etna soms heel dun dat je altijd van die prachtige sproeifonteinen hebt?
quote:April 23rd - Etna does it again
The 25th paroxysm of Etna's New SE crater is happening at the time of writing. It started around 16:00 hrs local time with week Strombolian explosions accompanied by a steeply increasing tremor. Now, explosions are becoming near-continuous and a lava flow is being emitted from the SE-running fissure of the cone and flowing into the Valle del Bove.
quote:A swarm of earthquakes has started in the NW sector of the volcano. The largest quake was a felt M4.1 earthquake at 20 km depth.
Strombolian activity has resumed at the New SE crater as well. Tremor began rising on 20 November.
On the night of 21 November, incandescence was seen in Etna's New Southeast crater. Incandescence
was last observed from the crater in April 2012.
quote:Etna: new eruptive episode at the Bocca Nuova. On the evening of 28 January 2013, the Bocca Nuova - the largest of the summit craters of Etna - has been the site of a new episode of vigorous Strombolian activity. This episode was similar to, though slightly less intense than, the episodes of 16 and 18 January, but it was accompanied by weak Strombolian activity at the New Southeast Crater (NSEC).
During the preceding days, the summit craters had been degassing strongly, in particular the NSEC, where for a brief period on the evening of 27 January, weak incandescence was visible. The crater had last produced an episode of Strombolian activity on 22-23 January 2013 (see 23 January 2013 update). On the morning of 28 January, gas emission from the NSEC was often rhythmic and pulsating; at times the gas puffs appeared "dirty" because they contained modest amounts of fine pyroclastic material (Fig. 1 and 2). The degassing was not accompanied by any noise to be heard at a distance of a few kilometers.
Starting at 07:46 GMT (=local time -1) on 28 January, the eruptive vent located in the southeastern portion of the crater floor of the Bocca Nuova, produced small puffs of dark volcanic ash, which rarely rose more than 150-200 m above the crater rim (Fig. 1 and 2). Initially, these ash emissions were separated by intervals of 5-10 minutes, but later they became more and more frequent, with one emission every 1-3 minutes in the late forenoon. Some of the emissions were accompanied by loud rumbling noises well audible at Piano del Vescovo, about 7.7 km southeast of the Bocca Nuova. Ash emissions continued at least until 14:00 GMT, when weather conditions deteriorated and precluded any visual observations.
Shortly after 17:00 GMT, the visual surveillance cameras of the INGV-Osservatorio Etneo showed the beginning of mild Strombolian activity within the Bocca Nuova (Fig. 3, top frame). Contemporaneously, the volcanic tremor amplitude recorded in the summit area started to rise, accelerating notably around 19:00 GMT and reaching a peak shortly thereafter. During the same time interval, the Strombolian activity within the Bocca Nuova intensified, with jets of incandescent bombs and scoriae that often rose several tens of meters above the crater rim.
From 17:40 GMT onward, weak and discontinuous Strombolian activity was visible at the NSEC (Fig. 3, second and third frames). Some explosions launched incandescent bombs up to 30 m above the crater rim. This activity reached its greatest intensity between 19:00 and 19:30 GMT, and from 19:40 GMT rapidly diminished to be followed by the emission of a conspicuous column of white vapor, which continued during the whole night and through the following day of 19 January.
At the Bocca Nuova, however, the intracrater Strombolian activity - which was presumably accompanied by the emission of lava onto the crater floor - continued until about 00:15 GMT on 29 January. Starting around 21:50, the activity had shown signs of gradually diminishing and more and more discontinuous, even though some explosions between 22:00 and 23:00 GMT were particularly violent (Fig. 3, bottom frame). The diminution of the vigor of the eruptive activity was accompanied by a rapid decrease in the volcanic tremor amplitude.
As for the Bocca Nuova, this episode - the fourth from this crater during this month, after those of 10-15, 16 and 18 January - was rather similar to its predecessors. The peak values attained by the volcanic tremor amplitude were slightly lower than those of the 18 January episode, and significantly lower than those of the 16 January episode. The single source of the activity was once more the intracrater cone leaning against the southeastern base of the inner crater wall; unfortunately, the harsh weather conditions in the past few weeks have precluded any field visit to the crater rim aimed at observing the morphological changes caused by the recent activity.
A new element in the eruptive episode of 28 January 2013 is the Strombolian activity at the NSEC, which accompanied during the first two-and-a-half hours of the episode the Strombolian activity within the Bocca Nuova
This is indeed the first occurrence of simultaneous eruptive activity at two of Etna's summit craters since about 12 years; in contrast, during the period of summit activity of 1995-2001, it was rather normal to see contemporaneous activity at two, sometimes three and rarely all four of the summit craters. One particularly noteworthy event of this type was the sequence of paroxysmal episodes that occurred within a few hours on 4 September 1999: first a sub-Plinian explosive episode at the Voragine, followed by lava fountaining within the Bocca Nuova, and finally an episode of Strombolian activity at the (old) Southeast Crater, which culminated in the fracturing of its cone from the summit to the base.
quote:Mt Etna erupts again
Italy's Mount Etna sent lava and gas shooting toward the stars early this morning (Feb. 19), the first big eruption for the volcano in 2013.
The famous Sicilian volcano burst to life overnight, sending a fountain of fire into the air. The dramatic scene was captured in a video by Klaus Dorschfeldt, a videographer and webmaster at Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Mount Etna, one of the world's most active volcanoes, had emitted signs of an imminent paroxysm in recent weeks. On Jan. 22, lava and strong flashes in the volcano's New Southeast Crater were clearly visible from the Sicilian foothills; these often herald a new paroxysm: short, violent eruptive bursts.
Dorschfeldt said he knew Mount Etna's recent signals could precede new activity. "[I've] followed the activity of Etna for many years, and with time you learn to know it as if it were your friend," he said in an email interview. "Following it constantly [you] learn to be a keen observer and a minor change can lead to something important," he told OurAmazingPlanet.
The tallest volcano in Europe, Mount Etna is almost constantly spewing gas or lava. Its Bocca Nuova crater also erupted earlier this year, from Jan. 10 to Jan. 20. In 2011, Etna's violent bursts were spotted from space.
quote:Etna barst uit
Op Sicilië is de Etna op 24 uur tijd twee keer kortstondig uitgebarsten. De vulkaan spuwde een hoge fontein van as de lucht in. De vulkaanuitbarsting bracht ook een kleine lavastroom teweeg, die aan de oostkant in Valle del Bove ver van de eerste dorpen neerkwam.
Het was de eerste keer dit jaar dat de 3.350 hoge vulkaan uitbarstte. De nabijgelegen luchthaven van Catania, aan de noordoostkust van Sicilië, hoefde niet gesloten te worden. Vorig jaar waren er acht van dergelijke uitbarstingen van de Etna.
quote:Etna's activity last week was actually a warming up for the show on Saturday
Much of last week, we were focused on the activity at Italy’s Etna. The week ended with some lava flows creeping down the volcano and, for a day, things had settled down. Well, little did we know that Etna was actually just warming up. During the night of February 23 (Saturday), the volcano unleashed a remarkable explosive volley, producing lava fountains that toward 800 meters over the crater on the southeast slopes of the volcano. Video taken by Dr. Boris Behncke of the Osservatorio Etneo (above) shows just how powerful the eruption was, with the pulsing and roaring of the lava as it was explosively thrown from the vent near the new Southeast Crater.
Let’s try to put a 800 meter lava fountain into some perspective. 800 meters is ~2,624 feet. The height of the Empire State Building in New York is ~1,250 feet (roof height — add the tower and its ~1,454 feet). So, lava was fountaining from the crater on Etna as height as almost 2 Empire State Buildings on Saturday night (see image on top).
Now, the factors that go into the height of a lava fountain include the magma supply rate (how much magma is being fed into conduit to erupt), the gas content of the magma — the higher the gas content, the more explosive the eruption will be, and the geometry of the crater. This eruption of Etna likely had a high rate of magma supplied to the vent and relatively high gas content to produce such a lava fountain. However, it isn’t even close to the record for tall lava fountains. The record for historic (and confirmed) lava fountain height is the 1986 eruption of Izu-Oshima in Japan that topped out at ~1,600 meters. When Tarawera erupted in 1886, the lava fountains in that basaltic eruption were estimated to be as tall as 2,000 meters (2 kilometers)* — that’s ~6,561 feet or 5.25 Empire State Buildings worth of lava fountain. The eruption of Tarawera did not have any geologists to accurately measure the height of the fountain, so the 2,000 meters height is based on local people’s recollection of the eruption. However, 2,000 meters isn’t unreasonable based on the eruptive rate and gas content of the Tarawera basalt. To take it even higher, the lava fountains from the 1779 eruption of Vesuvius were thought to have reached 3 kilometers (9,800 feet)!
By Sunday morning, the new cone built by Saturday night’s (and earlier in the week) lava fountains was clearly visible — a dark, black cone of volcanic debris starkly contrasted against the white mountain snows (see below). It is remarkable to see how quickly these volcano features can grow during these periods of intense activity. Lava flows are still snaking down the volcano as well — so it seems like Etna’s February is still going strong.
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quote:Mount Etna eruption spews mile-high lava fountain
Europe's most active volcano sent streams of red hot lava high into the night sky on Saturday.
The latest activity is from a new crater on the south east face of the Sicilian volcano.
Officials said the spectacular eruption was not a threat to nearby residents in Catania.
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quote:Op zaterdag 23 november 2013 13:12 schreef knep het volgende:
Hoppa, fikse uitbarsting Etna:
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Meer: http://www.meteoweb.eu/20(...)e-foto-shock/241506/
In Italië zeker welquote:Op maandag 25 februari 2013 19:49 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
Daar kan geen enkele vuurwerkshow tegenop.
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Etna doet dr best volgens mijquote:Op woensdag 4 december 2013 23:05 schreef kurk_droog het volgende:
Gaat die nog een keer klappen of wat?
quote:Luchthavens gesloten vanwege Etna
Op Sicilië zijn de luchthavens van Catania en Comiso gesloten door een uitbarsting van de nabijgelegen vulkaan Etna. Verschillende vluchten moesten worden geschrapt.
Luchthavenbeheerder Sac legt in een mededeling uit dat de as van de vulkaan een risico vormt voor vliegtuigen, gelet op de richting en intensiteit van de wind. Vandaag zal de situatie opnieuw worden bekeken. Vanuit Comiso vliegt Ryanair van en naar Charleroi. De volgende vluchten op die route zijn morgen gepland.
Uitbarstingen van de Etna zijn niet ongewoon maar de huidige, die zaterdag is begonnen, is de meest intense in maanden. De langs de flank van de vulkaan stromende lava is zichtbaar vanuit Catania en Taormina, een populaire badplaats. In de omgeving van de vulkaan werden gisteren ook drie lichte aardbevingen geregistreerd.
twitter:EtnaLive twitterde op maandag 30-12-2013 om 12:53:13Maestosa come sempre. #etna #etnalive #eruzione #lava #esplosioni #photo Samantha Tarda http://t.co/zUlLu1co51 reageer retweet
twitter:etnaboris twitterde op maandag 30-12-2013 om 05:43:19Etna erupting on the early morning of 30 December 2013, seen from the INGV-Catania http://t.co/YufwyBuiYV reageer retweet
twitter:jkelley533 twitterde op maandag 30-12-2013 om 04:02:53@eruptionsblog One of the webcams for Etna is now back. Has great views! http://t.co/vGzHdZCEqK reageer retweet
twitter:EtnaLive twitterde op maandag 30-12-2013 om 00:18:59#Buonanotte #etna #etnalive #live #esplosioni #eruzione #catania #italy #word #beauty #photo Carmelo di Mauro http://t.co/YzKInTbkgI reageer retweet
twitter:VolcanoReport twitterde op maandag 30-12-2013 om 00:01:49#Etna volcano #Sicily is currently #erupting - Webcam : http://t.co/MLd2CI8WTE http://t.co/puUH3wqub2 reageer retweet
twitter:TuriCaggegi twitterde op maandag 30-12-2013 om 06:46:08Etna Eruption. The Huge Lava Flow. HD Etna, Eruzione e grande colata lavica: http://t.co/Y4MGCmkejl tramite @YouTube reageer retweet
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