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CATANIA – He prefers night hours, preferably on weekends, as if he wanted to draw attention only to himself.
Etna registers a new paroxysmal event (the eleventh since last February 16) from the southeast crater with sources of lava and the emission of an eruptive cloud that caused an intense shower of ash and lapilli, even large, on the east side of the River. volcano.
The phenomenon has already ended and was anticipated, starting at 2 am last night, by several hours of strombolian activity that also involved the Voragine, Bocca Nuova and Nordeste craters.
The new phase registered its highest energy from 7 o’clock, when the activity of the southeast crater changed from Strombolian to a source of lava.
Twenty minutes later, experts from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology-Etna Observatory detected the formation of an eruptive column that exceeded a height of 10,000 meters above sea level, dispersing in an easterly direction.
From the effusive vent that opened on March 4 at the base of the southeastern crater, a flow emerges that empties into the Valle del Bove where, opening in several ‘arms’, the most advanced fronts of the night reached an altitude of 2,400. meters.
Starting at 7.45 am, the volcanic tremor suffered a decrease in amplitude reaching medium-low levels and the infrasonic events returned to weak energy.
The activity of the lava fountain, according to the observations of the Ingv-Oe of Catania, ceased at 8.10. The volcanic cloud, dispersed in the eastern sector, has mainly produced a radioactive fallout of ash and lapilli in the Etna villages of Milo, Fornazzo, Trepunti, Giarre, Macchia di Giarre, Mascali, Riposto and Torre Archirafi.
Alterations in the A18 Messina-Catania, in particular in the Fiumefreddo-Giarre section. On the ground several patrols of the Polstrada. In this sense, caution is recommended due to the slippery asphalt due to the rain and the presence of lava ash on both carriageways of the highway.
The new eruptive phase of Etna, for the moment, does not affect the operations of the Vincenzo Bellini International Airport in Catania.
