Eruption fears grow as Mount Etna spews car-sized rocks over Sicily

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Etna eruption in Sicily on February 21, 2022. via Twitter

Mount Etna has sent a cloud of volcanic gas and debris seven miles high over Sicily and spewed boulders the size of large cars, prompting experts to warn that the volcano is becoming “increasingly efficient”.

The sky turned darker, the airport in nearby Catania was closed and towns were covered in a thin black layer of ash on Monday as Etna belched out about two million cubic metres of lava, gas and debris.

This was the 54th episode since February 2021 and we think the volcano has released well over 100 million cubic metres of material since then,” said Boris Behncke, a researcher with Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.


During the year-long bout of eruptions from its southeastern crater, Etna has fired out “primitive” magma from the earth’s mantle, which contains high levels of gas and vapour, making it more explosive.

We’ve been lucky a new opening has not appeared lower down on Etna’s flanks, from where lava could have reached inhabited areas — as happened in the Canaries recently,” Behncke, who lives close to Etna, said. The chance of that happening in the next ten years is “rather elevated”, he added.

Experts believe the activity resembles the build-up to an eruption that wiped out nine towns in 1669.

When activity ceased last October, experts thought Etna had exhausted a quantity of magma that had accumulated after rising from deep below ground.

But with two eruptions this month, Behncke said another theory was emerging. “Etna seems to be getting more efficient. There is less accumulation, so what comes in goes straight out,” he said. “Etna never sleeps.

Samples of debris would now be analysed to understand how deep below the ground it originated. “It’s not hard to get the samples — I just pick up the fragments that land on my balcony,” Behncke said.

He joined colleagues on Monday at an observation post three miles from the eruption. “We could see enormous rocks as large as SUVs crashing down close to the crater,” he said.

Behncke added that towns close to the volcano that are regularly blanketed in ash needed to organise their clean-up campaigns more efficiently. “People often don’t realise they are living next to one of the most explosive volcanoes on the planet,” he said. [The Times]

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