Etna eruption october 2013 images

Mount Etna eruption
of today.
Photo by A. di Grazia

It 'going on Friday night a new strombolian activity from the crater of Etna Southeast, characterized by high lava fountains accompanied by the emission of lava ash, carried by the wind towards the south-west. The activity of Mount Etna began around midnight.
The fountains of lava starts at 4:50.

• Mount Etna in eruption from Space

Were not formed when lava flows.
The situation is monitored by the Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Catania.
Etna (Mungibeddu or 'to Muntagna in Sicilian) is a volcanic complex in Sicily, which originated in the Quaternary and is the highest active volcano in the earth of the Eurasian plate.
  With the different eruptions associated with it, the landscape has changed constantly, often threatening the various human communities, which over the millennia have settled around it.
Its surface is characterized by a rich variety of environments, which alternates urban landscapes, dense forests that maintain different plant species endemic to desolate areas covered by volcanic rock and snow periodically subject to the highest shares.
On 21 June 2013, the thirty-seventh session of the UNESCO Committee Meeting held in Phnom Penh, Mount Etna has awarded the title of World Heritage Site.


Sopra: l'ultima eruzione del Vulcano Etna che si sta verificando proprio in queste ore.