Mount Etna tours resume after dramatic eruption
CATANIA – Mount Etna tours have resumed just one day after its most powerful eruption in four years sent tourists fleeing down its slopes.
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Mount Etna erupts forcing hikers to flee
Mount Etna erupts, sending a vast column of ash and smoke into the sky above Sicily. The eruption triggered panic among hikers on the slopes of Europe’s most active volcano.
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Energy increasing inside Etna with lava plumes
Mount Etna on Saturday night belched out another lava plume and a five-kilometre-high column of ashy smoke.
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Etna eruption closes Catania airport
The SAC agency operating Catania airport closed its airspace early on Friday due to ash in the atmosphere caused by Mount Etna eruption. Meanwhile, the Sicilian Island of Stromboli is on red alert because of volcanic activity there.
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Mount Etna blows ‘smoke rings’
Mount Etna, on Sicily, recently showcased a rare phenomenon – the release of volcanic vortex rings, or ‘smoke rings’.
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Mount Etna eruption – flight disruption at Sicily’s Catania airport
On Sunday night, Mount Etna spewed into life. The eruption sent lava and ash high above the island of Sicily. Whilst the lava flow subsided, ash was still coming from one of the craters.
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Mount Etna erupted with 11km-high column
Mount Etna sent another plume of lava and ashy smoke into the Sicilian sky today. The sky above Catania was thick with smoke and the airport closed at lunchtime until further notice.
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