The eruption threw out jets of lava into the sky and was visible from further afield locations, such as the city of catania.
View Mount Etna Eruption Timeline Background. Rupt.ly/subscribe italy's highest volcano mount etna in catania erupted in the early hours of wednesday, spewing lava and plumes. Multiple eruptions over the next few weeks killed more than 20,000 people and left thousands more homeless.
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Mount etna is located on the east coast of sicily and prior eruptions have been elevated to at least seven kilometres above the summit, mainly due to prevailing winds. Mount etna, still active volcano. Rupt.ly/subscribe italy's highest volcano mount etna in catania erupted in the early hours of wednesday, spewing lava and plumes.
The sicilian volcano, which is europe's most active, has seen an increase in seismic activity over the last week, culminating in the eruption.
Mount etna shot streams of lava into the sky on thursday as it began erupting overnight. Footage captured by photographer guiseppe distefano shows the highly active volcano as lava flows. Between 1971 and 2001, the southeast crater was the most productive of the four summit craters of mount etna, with activity that can be compared, on a. The greeks created legends about the volcano, saying that it the eruption took place along a fissure that opened above the town of nicolosi, widening into a chasm from which lava flowed and solid fragments, sand.
