A fresh eruption of Mount Etna has actually sent out a big 6 mile long ash cloud into the sky above Catania inSicily
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Dramatic photos revealed the ancient port city overshadowed by the an enormous cloud gushing out of the volcano, among the most active on the planet.
Vincenzo Bellini, Sicily’s second biggest worldwide airport, was briefly closed at lunch break on Monday due to the eruption, with incoming flights diverted to Palermo.
The ash cloud increased 6.2 miles into the air above a crator on the south-east of the volcano, the INGV National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology stated on Twitter.
Ash covered roadways, verandas and roofing systems of towns close by, Italy’s civil defense company stated.
INGV stated it had actually tape-recorded a progressive increase in volcanic-seismic trembling– caused by leaving gases– which might be an indication that Etna is heading towards another amazing burst of intense lava fountaining, referred to as paroxysmal activity.
At 3,324 metres (almost 11,000 feet), Etna is the highest active volcano in Europe and has actually appeared often in the past 500,000 years.
The newest eruption was so strong it might be seen from area with the dust cloud being detected satellite images from the International SpaceStation
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