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“It was worse,” Stefano Branco, director of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in the nearby city of Catania, told Italy’s AGI news agency.
Branco, noting that the eruption of the southeastern crater of Mount Etna had started Tuesday afternoon, stressed that the latest intensification of activity “is not worrisome.”
Even so, before the fall of small stones and ashes, the authorities decided to close the Catania International Airport.
The emergency services through the social network Twitter reported that they were closely monitoring the situation in three villages at the foot of the volcano: Lingvaglosa, Fornace and Mile.
The photos show a stunning pink ash ball on top of a snow cover. That cloud mainly dispersed until dusk and the lava flows continued to glow.
At an altitude of 3,324 meters, Mount Etna is the highest active volcano in Europe and of the last 500,000 years it often erupted.
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