Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Mt Etna Erupting again!

 
Eruption of the Etna September 2007 E-mail
The 29 August on the east flank of the south-east crater has been recorded an elevated frequency of strombolian outbreaks. Such outbreaks are not compatible with an increasing of magma flow but with collapses produced by an emptying of a superficial magmatic tank.

etna eruption 2007
 
The investigators of the national institute of Geophysicist and volcanology (http://www.ct.ingv.it) have directly observed the collapse that in its inside shows a slag cone. The explosive activity is accompanied by ash emission.

etna eruption picture
 
More information in the report of the institute of geophysicist of Catania http://www.ct.ingv.it/Report/RPTVGREP20070829.pdf

See live webcam here / Watch the videos of the eruptions
 
Updates 4-5 September:
 
For all the night, in the depression on the east flank of the crater of S-E, is in course an intense and spectacular strombolian activity with lava fountains that catch up a height of several hundreds of meters. A small tap of lava heads towards the Bove Valley. Moreover present is an ash column of approximately two kilometers that go towards east on Fornazzo and Milo.

It's for the ash that it has been decided, beginning from 1:00 Am of this night, the closing of the airport of Catania.
 
eruption etna 2007
 
eruptiont etna 2007
 
eruption etna 2007
 
eruzione etna 2007
 
eruption
 
etna erupting 2007
 
etna erupting 2007
 
erupts
 
etna erupting again
 
 



No comments:

Post a Comment