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Showing posts with label Geology - Volcanoes - Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geology - Volcanoes - Italy. Show all posts

Thursday, April 6, 2017

SPECTACULAR RIVER OF LAVA FLOWS DOWN MOUNT ETNA, SICILY - Watch VIDEO captured by drone - The area near this volcano it is densely populated

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River of red-hot lava is captured flowing down the side of Mount Etna in breathtaking drone footage
  • Smoking magma can be see rolling down the snow-topped mountainside as the drone glides in and out
  • Outpouring comes just weeks after an eruption forced a BBC reporter and a scientist to flee for their lives
  • Mount Etna in Sicily is one of the world's most active volcanoes and is 3,330-metres (10,926-feet) high

At the night, the white-hot heat of the river comes into view. Etna, at 3,330 metres (10,926 feet), is the highest volcano in mainland Europe



A river of red-hot lava was caught flowing out from Mount Etna (pictured) in breathtaking  footage taken from above by a drone


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Saturday, December 5, 2015

MOUNT ETNA'S LATEST SPECTACULAR AND OTHER-WORLDLY ERUPTION - Complete with bursts of lightning

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Sending fire and ash across the Sicilian skyline, this is the incredible moment a crater on Mount Etna erupted for the first time in two years.  The massive volcanic plume came from the Voragine crater in what was its first eruption to reach the surface since 2013.  It is thought that activity started around a month ago with explosions inside the crater that the too small to reach the rim. 

A massive volcanic plume is sent across the Sicilian sky after the eruption of a crater on Mount Etna yesterday 

Mount Etna has been active for thousands of years, although its first eruption of modern times was thought to be in 475 BC.   It is so well-known it was written about by the Ancient Roman poet Virgil, who called its eruptions a 'roar of frightful rain'. 
Volcanic activity has been rumbling inside the crater for around a month but yesterday was the first time in two years an explosion came to the surface 

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