Pictures : Mount Etna Eruption, Italy (31st July/1st August 2011)

güttsfükk · #1 ● 08-08-2011, 09:26 PM

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The volcano has been sputtering with abundant steam and ash plumes and some strombolian explosions in the southeast pit crater on the morning of 8 May 2011, generating loud detonations that were audible to many kilometers away, such as the Monti Sartorius (northeast flank) and the town of Zafferana Etnea. After sunset, Strombolian explosions were seen to occur at intervals of 3–10 minutes, ejecting incandescent bombs up to a few tens of meters above the crater rim. During the night, some explosions threw bombs well beyond the crater rim, down to the base of the cone that has grown around the crater during the recent paroxysms. This activity continued on the morning of 9 May, without any change in the frequency and size of the explosions and no variation was seen in the seismic activity either. On 11 May, this activity rapidly increased and some lava started to spill over the low eastern rim of the crater.[18] Then, around 0300h in the morning on 12 May (local time = GMT+2), the fourth lava fountain of Etna in the year 2011 burst into the night sky. For many hours, there had been increasingly vigorous Strombolian activity and a small lava flow, and the amplitude of volcanic tremor was rising. The fountain lasted for a couple of hours and ended at daybreak - by 0600 h it was essentially over.

Mount Etna erupted again in 2011 on July 9, 18 and 19, 24 and 25, 30 and 31, and on August 5 and 6, 12 and 20, sending lava sprays several hundreds metres into the air; no damage or casualties were reported.

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