May 2016 – ITALY – Mt.
Etna in Sicily, Italy has been active once again and some spectacular
footage was filmed of its latest colorful eruptions. The video captured
bright colors and plumes of smoke and a sea of gurgling lava. The
mountain’s summit erupted at dawn Saturday, sending plumes of smoke and
lava and ash into a burning orange/red sky. It was filmed by Italian
journalist and videographer Turi Caggegi, who said he was filming from
near the Voragine crater.
The snow-covered Mt. Etna has long been
an active volcano with numerous eruptions throughout modern times and
geologists from Italy’s nearby National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology in Catania expected this latest one. “On May 17th we
witnessed an increase in the amplitude of volcanic tremors and recorded
intense degassing accompanied by occasional, weak emissions from the
north-eastern crater,” a statement from the Institute said.
Smoke and lava was catapulted hundreds
of meters into the air. At 3200 meters tall (more than 10,000 feet) Mt.
Etna is Europe’s highest active volcano. After some eruptions the height
of Mt. Etna alters but it always remains the tallest active volcano on
the continent. With interest in Mt. Etna rising again, last week NASA
published an animation that uses radio satellite imagery compiled from
1992 to 2001 to make it appear as if the volcano is ‘breathing’ during
those years. Geologists have theorized that if the volcano were to ever
erupt at his full force it could do extensive damage to all of Sicily.
The volcano last erupted in December of 2015. –Digital Journal
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