A volcano located on the island of Stromboli, Italy, erupted at 3 a.m. on Sunday, sending masses of “lava bombs” to areas visited by hikers.
the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology The Etna observatory reported a “strong intensity explosion” in Stromboli followed by volcanic activity on Sunday morning. the Laboratory of Experimental Geophysics at the University of Florence. reported that the eruption lasted four minutes. (RELATED: ‘A Looming Catastrophe’: A UN Official Warns That The Tanker Could Spill Four Times More Oil Than Exxon Valdez)
The video taken from a webcam shows the lava coming out of the volcano towards a slope, called Sciara del Fuoco. The slope is a popular tourist attraction and left one person dead after the volcano erupted in 2019, by Reuters. Dr. Tom Pfeiffer of VolcanoDiscovery.com wrote that the explosion “showered the entire crater deck and beyond with incandescent lava bombs.”
“According to geophysical data, this morning’s explosion was approximately 10 times stronger than the average size of explosions at the volcano and comparable to the large eruption on March 15, 2017, but it was still an order of magnitude less than the two paroxysms of last year on July 3 and August 28, 2019, “said Pfeiffer in VolcanoDiscovery.com.
Pfeiffer said the explosion occurred without warning and that the volcano had fairly low activity levels in recent weeks, according to VolcanoDiscovery.com.
