Etna Activities.
The first of the "parossistici" events started in the night between the 12th and the 13th of January 2011, when from the well crater, which formed on the eastern side of south-east crater, Etna caused lava fountains, which during its activity reached an height of about 500 metres from the crater edge and long lava flowing which flooded into a good part of the western face of the Bove Valley, and in so doing it overlapped on the ancient flowing which by now are cold and it reached the base of the Centenari Mounts, situated at 1900 m. In addition to this, a tight ash rain affected the built-up areas of the eastern side and it caused a lot of problems in the towns of Fornazzo, Milo, Giarre, Riposto as well as in a part of the Catania-Messina highway.
The first repetition of this phenomenon arrived about one month later, between the 17th and the 18th of February. After a break of about 50 days, Etna make people talk about itself on 10th April, and it presented the same events of the precedent eruptions, that is lava flowing, lava fountains and ash rains on the towns of the eastern side. Hence, one month later, on 12th May, other events of this activity were registered and they happened again on 9th July, while, on 11th July after 10 years, one of the four peak craters of the volcano, the Bocca Nuova, woke and caused a series of Strombolian explosions, together with various gas and ash emissions. From 9th July there was an acceleration in the manifestation of this events, that happened again on the 18th of July , on the 25th, on the 30th and in the end on the 5th of Auguston the 12th, on the 20th and on the 29th, when there was the twelfth of this "parossistici" episodes and the most intense of all. The next was on the 8th September, to follow the 19th and September 28th, 8th and 23th October.
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Activity at the Bocca Nuova 25 August 2010.
Information Activity 2008
Friday 15 December 2006
after the eruptive activity of this last days, the explosive and effusive activity of the south-east crater is finished.
Monday 11 December
at 01.00 (local time) the seismographs of the INGV Catania, situated in the summit of the Etna, started registering several seismic events; from 04.30 (local time) a new eruptive activity of the south-east crater started.
Friday 8 December 2006
after five months of eruption, the activity of the south-east crater finished.
Tuesday 5 December 2006
at the moment there’s an explosive activity at the base of the south-east crater with huge emissions of ash, which has caused lots of problems to the airport of Catania. The lavas flow are flowing inside the Bove Valley.
Tuesday 28 November 2006
Etna is in activity again, the lavas flow are flowing inside the Bove Valley from the base of the south-east crater. Due to the enormous emission of ash, the airport of Catania is temporarily closed.
Friday 13 October 2006
tonight at 00.30 (local time) a new effusive mouth opened at the base of the south-east crater (about 2.800 m a.s.l.); the lava is flowing into the Bove Valley. There is no explosive activity.
Thursday 12 October 2006
after 24 hours from the starting of a new eruption on the south-east crater, yesterday evening, finished again. The activity that has interested the south-east crater from last July until yesterday, is a typical paroxysm (of some days or some hours), that It was observed during the years 1999-2001, before the big eruption of July/August 2006.
Wednesday 11 October 2006
after five days, the south-east crater has become active again, there is an explosive and effusive activity.
Friday 6 October 2006
from last night the eruption at the south-east crater has finished again.
Wednesday 4 October 2006
from yesterday evening the south-east crater has become active again, there is an explosive and effusive activity.
Thursday 28 September 2006
from yesterday morning the activity of the south-east crater is finished.
Monday 25 September 2006
from this morning a new lavas flow is flowing from the south-east crater on the lavas flow of last days, into the Bove Valley.
Saturday 23 September 2006
the south-east crater has started again, its eruption at 6.00 (local time).
Friday 15 September 2006
the explosive activity of the south-east crater has finished and the effusive activity has decreased.
Thursday 14 September 2006:
the activity of the south-east crater is always constant.
Monday 11 September 2006
the explosive and effusive activity of the south-east crater is increasing. Yesterday afternoon, at about 18.30 (local time), there was an activity ash emission at the summit of the south-east crater, for sake some collapses, and a new lavas flow.
Thursday 7 September 2006,
At 4.40 (local time), the lavas flow which in the past days had flowed along the east side of the crater in a big depression "Voragine" born during the eruption of 2004/05, overflowed in towards the base of the same crater. At 13.30 (local time), the lavas flow has already arrived at about 2.850 mt inside the Bove Valley.
Monday 4 September 2006
From the 21.45 (local time), to register the lavas flow from the summit of the south-east crater in the direction of the east side of the same crater, the explosive activity has decreased.
Thursday 31 August 2006
From this morning there has been explosive activity (stromboliana type), of the south-east crater, there are rumbles at regular intervals of 5-10 sec
Wednesday 30 August 2006
At 23.00 (local time), the seismographs of the INGV Catania, situated in the summit of Etna, started registering several seismic events.
After the eruption of last 14-23 July 2006, the south-east crater is active again.
Past Etna Eruptions