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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy "Mongibello" redirects here. For the fictional location, see The Talented Mr. Ripley. Mount Etna Etna with the city of Catania in the foreground (December 2007) Highest point Elevation 3,403 m (11,165 ft)(varies) Prominence 3,403 m ...
Eruptions at Italy's Mount Etna and the smaller Stromboli volcano spewed hot ash and lava, raising alert levels on the Mediterranean island of Sicily and forcing a temporary shutdown of Catania ...
Flights were suspended at Sicily’s Catania airport on Sunday after Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, showered the city with a thick coating of ash.. Ash fell across the runway and over ...
Catania Airport is Sicily's busiest airport and Italy's 6th busiest airport, with nearly 9 million passengers each year. "The runway at Catania Airport is unusable due to the volcanic ash fall.
Four of Italy's volcanoes have erupted in the last one-hundred and fifty years: Mount Etna, on Sicily (continuous activity). It is the highest volcano in Europe west of the Caucasus. [4] [5] It last erupted in August 2024. Stromboli, one of the Aeolian Islands (continuous activity). [6]
With a volume of 0.5–1 km 3 (0.12–0.24 cu mi) [d] lava, [13] the 1669 eruption is Etna's largest during the last 400 years [4] and its largest historical effusive eruption. [67] Its lava field is the largest in the volcano's history [4] [31] and the longest flow at Etna during the last 15,000 years. [33]
Part of this lava flow system is the "Sciara del Follone" that contains the cave. [3] This long-lasting eruption emplaced about 1.05 cubic kilometres (0.25 cu mi) of lava on a surface of about 21 square kilometres (8.1 sq mi). [4] The surface of the lava flows, exposed to the air, cooled and solidified to form a crust on the remaining flow.
Mount Etna is an active stratovolcano located at the eastern coast of Sicily which is composed mainly of basalt. Its formation began at about 0.5 Ma when submarine volcanism occurred at the Gela foredeep and formed tholeiitic pillow lava. At about 0.3 Ma, a tholeiitic lava plateau was formed on an ancient alluvial plain by fissure-type volcanism.