[Rockhounds] Why scientists are excited about Italy's volcanoes

[Tim Fisher]

We took the cruise to Stromboli when we were in the area a few years ago. It
was amazing, we ditched other plans when we saw it the first night. If you
do it the night cruise is much better than the daytime one. Not sure if I
would have wanted to be near the volcano if it did that again lol.

Tim Fisher
nospam at orerockon.com



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The top of the volcano exploded, sending a gigantic column of ash four or
five kilometres
<https://www.protezionecivile.gov.it/en/notizia/stromboli-update-volcanic-ac
tivity-and-civil-protection-response/>
(2.5-3
miles) into the sky. Mount Stromboli, off the north coast of Sicily, is one
of the most active volcanoes in the world. On 11 July, it produced a
paroxysm – a term in geology for a type of powerful eruption that interrupts
a period of milder volcanic activity. In the villages nestled around the
foot of the volcano, warning sirens blared.

The paroxysm occurred shortly after 2pm local time and news of the event
quickly began to spread online. Shortly after the explosion, two dozen or so
volcanologists around Europe were due to attend one of their regular
meetings. Chiara Maria Petrone, a volcano petrologist at the Natural History
Museum in the UK, joined the session online.

"We started the meeting just an hour after the paroxysm," she recalls. "It
was really exciting."

Immediately, the scientists began bringing each other up to speed. Some
shared real-time data from seismometers and other instruments. A few
attendees even happened to be on the island of Stromboli at the time,
according to Petrone, meaning they were able to describe what they were
seeing. "It was all just happening at that moment," says .

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240806-why-scientists-are-excited-abou
t-italys-volcanoes
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