View Mount Etna Eruption Phoenix Background. Etna has been erupting for days, periodically spewing ash but not causing disruption to local residents or the airport at nearby catania. Eugenio privitera, catania's ingv director, says this eruption is taking place at etna's summit and does not pose risks to residents.
Every once in a while you get these 'eruptions', but it's basically lava slowly the mount vesuvius whas actually a very fertile mountain and people did not know that it was a time bomb ready to explode. The sources of volcanic tremor and infrasound signals are located in the area of the nsec. As mount etna, europe's largest active volcano, began erupting on february 27, it became a reminder of just that.
Ash emission from the nsec and from the nec at 04:02 utc, seen from tremestieri etneo on etna's south flank.
Photographs of the spectacle on saturday showed streams of red magma spilling down the volcano's slopes and plumes of ash extending skywards. Ms morelle said the group. Footage captured by photographer guiseppe distefano shows the highly active volcano as lava flows. Mount etna is one of those volcanoes that it's like a baby that drools.