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Tourists Flee As Mount Etna Erupts, Spewing Ash And Lava
Mount Etna has blown its top once more, and there are scenes of pandemonium throughout Sicily.
A June 2 eruption appeared especially volatile, despite Mount Etna’s frequent eruptions (including a significant one in August 2024) and reputation for shutting down Catania Airport.
Etna should not be undervalued because it is a stratovolcano, even though it may not be considered a supervolcano.
Etna is situated between Messina and Catania, and because it can spew the same hot rocks and gases that buried Pompei, scientists are correctly watching to see when the volcano erupts.
Although Etna has already erupted twelve times in 2025, the most recent one has gone viral due to footage of tourists escaping the slopes.
We are correct to be wary about the recent increase in volcanic activity on Etna, since Nostradamus appeared to have mentioned an eruption occurring around 2024 or 2025.
As a cloud of black ash shoots high into the sky, the video shows throngs of visitors running down the mountain.
Fortunately, no one has been hurt.
Giuseppe Panfallo, a tour guide, described what it was like to be caught in the blast in an interview with CNN: “Look at this cloud here, we were almost grazed.” Thank god we had a responsible guide with us because we were only two steps away.
“It arrived all at once, an immense smoke, immense, immense roar.”
An ash cloud primarily composed of water and sulphur dioxide was moving southwest, according to a reaffirmation from Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. Although excursions are already returning to Etna’s slopes, geologists have been keen to downplay the threats of the volcano.
All of the guides and guests were safely removed from the slopes, even though there are about a dozen trips on Etna at any given moment.
Renato Schifani, the president of the Sicily region, stated that he has received assurances that there is “no danger for the population” because the lava flow does not pass by the well-known Valley of the Lions tourist destination.
Schifani continued: “The partial collapse of the south-east crater, which generated an impressive eruptive cloud several kilometres high and a pyroclastic flow, is a phenomenon that we follow with extreme caution.”
Stefano Branca, head of the Etna Observatory at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy, stated that this is not to downplay the severity of an eruption: “Such intense volcanic activity had not been recorded since February 2021.”
The agency added that Etna is experiencing ‘strombolian explosions’, with the University of Reading’s Dr. Stuart Black admitting, “Commercial aircraft typically fly at similar altitudes as where the volcanic material is reaching, so persistent activity could force flight rerouting in the region.”
A large amount of ash is likely to be in the sky, as indicated by the red aviation colour code issued by the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre. Since then, this has been reduced to amber.
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