[Rockhounds] Mt Etna's latest eruptions awe even those who study volcanos

[Tim Fisher]

If I went to Sicily again I'd prioritize 2 things, the boat ride to
Stromboli from Milazzo and the jeep ride to Etna from Taormina. Sadly we
only booked 2 days for Sicily, mostly to visit my family's home towns and I
was too excited to do Pompeii and Herculaneum. 

Tim Fisher
Http://OreRockOn.com 
Email nospam at orerockon.com

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ROME (AP) — Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, has awed even seasoned
volcanologists in recent days with spectacular spurts of lava lighting up
the Sicilian sky each night.

The latest eruption overnight petered out by around 0900 GMT Tuesday,
according to Italy’s National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology.

For over a week, Etna has been belching lava, ash and volcanic rocks on a
regular basis. The nearby Catania Airport closed temporarily, and residents
of the town of Pedara said it appeared one day last week as if it were
raining rocks as a thick blanket of ash covered the town.
Volcanologist Boris Behncke of the national institute’s Etna observation
center has followed the latest paroxysms with awe. Writing on the
institute’s website this week, he said that after “gifting us moments of
suspense” over the previous nights, Etna finally erupted in a way “those of
us who have worked in this for decades have rarely seen.”
https://apnews.com/article/video-mount-etna-volcano-eruption-italy-fdfd723ed
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