Mount Etna eruption
The volcano has experienced more than 200 eruptions since then, although most are moderately small. [1]
Mount Etna (also known locally as Mongibeddu in Sicilian and Mongibello in Italian) is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania. [2]
Mount Etna (or Aetna, also known locally as Mongibello) is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily (Italian Sicilia), close to Messina and Catania. [3]
Eruptions can cause lava flows, hot ash flows, mudslides, avalanches, falling ash and floods. [4]
Mount Etna is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, part of southern Italy. [5]
A lateral crater of the 2002-2003 eruption near the Torre del Filosofo, about 450 metres below Etna’s summit. [6]
Activity was almost continuous in the decade following 1971, and in 1983 an eruption that lasted four months prompted authorities to explode dynamite in an attempt to divert lava flows. [7]
This caldera has been almost entirely filled by subsequent lava eruptions, but is still visible as a distinct break in the slope of the mountain near the base of the present-day summit cone. [8]
Mount Etna has repeatedly erupted over the centuries, most violently in 1669, when the lava flow destroyed villages on the lower slope and submerged part of the town of Catania. [7]
In November 1999 there was Strombolian eruption and mild vulcanian activity in Bocca Nuova crater. [9]
A very large lava flow from an eruption in 1918 led to the first destruction of a town since the 1669 eruption. [5]
Eruptions from Voragine at the summit of Mt Etna volcano began on 22nd July 1998 and produced an eruption column 9 km high. [...] Lava fountaining and flows lasted a few hours before a fissure opened downslope in a SSE direction, between 2400 and 2200 altitude. [9]
It is the largest active volcano in Europe, currently standing about 3,326 m (10,910 ft) high, though it should be noted that this varies with summit eruptions; the mountain is 21.6 m (71 ft) lower now than it was in 1865. [8]
It is the largest volcano in Europe, currently standing about 10,991 ft (3,350 m) high, though it should be noted that this varies with summit eruptions (the mountain is 71 ft (21,6 m) lower now than it was in 1865). [2]
Sources:
[1] Mount Etna Volcano, Italy: Map, Facts, Eruption Pictures
[2] Mount Etna : Sicily Guide, the travel source to Sicily
[3] Mount Etna
[4] MOUNT ETNA
[5] Mount Etna - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[6] Mount Etna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[7] Mount Etna: Definition from Answers.com
[8] Italian Visits - All about Italy - Mount Aetna or Mount Etna
[9] Mt Etna Volcano Eruptions, Italy - John Seach