Information Activity 2008
Friday 15 December 2006
after the eruptive activity of this last days, the explosive and effusive activity at the south-est crater is finished.
Monday 11 December
from 01.00 (local time) the seismographs of the INGV Catania, situated in the summit of Etna, have starting to register more seismic events; from 04.30 (local time) starting a new eruptive activity at the south-est crater.
Friday 8 December 2006
after five months of eruption, the activity at the south-est crater is finished.
Tuesday 5 December 2006
actually on Etna is present the explosive activity at the base of the south-est crater with emission of ash, with many problems for the Catania airport. The lavaflow are flowing inside the Bove Valley.
Tuesday 28 November 2006
Etna is in activity again, It is present the lavaflow that from the base of the south-est crater are flowing inside the Bove Valley, and usually every two days the paroxysm at the south-est crater. In this last days the ash of the volcano obliged the closing of Catania airport.
Friday 13 October 2006
this night at 00.30 (local time) at the base of the south-est crater, at about 2.800 m a.s.l., one new effusive mouth has been opened; the lava are flowing in direction Bove Valley. Absent the explosive activity.
Thursday 12 October 2006
after 24 hours from the starting of a new eruption on the south-est crater, yestarday evening, is all finished again. The activity that has interested the south-est crater from last july until yestarday, 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-est crater is in activity again, there is explosive and effusive activity.
Friday 6 October 2006
from last night the eruption at the south-est crater is finished again.
Wednesday 4 October 2006
from yestarday evening the south-est crater is in activity again, there is explosive and effusive activity.
Thursday 28 September 2006
from yestarday morning the activity at the south-est crater is finished.
Monday 25 September 2006
from this morning a new lavaflow are flowing from the south-est crater on the lavaflow of last days, in direction Bove Valley.
Saturday 23 September 2006
after an activity ash emission starting last 21 september 2006, the south-est crater from the 6.00 (local time) is in eruption again.
Friday 15 September 2006
the explosive activity at the south-est crater is finished and the effusive activity is in diminution.
Thursday 14 September 2006:
the activity at the south-est crater is always constant.
Monday 11 September 2006
the explosive and effusive activity at the south-est crater is in increase. Yestarday afternoon, at about 18.30 (local time), there was an activity ash emission at the summit of the south-est crater, for sake some collapse, and a new lavaflow.
Thursday 7 September 2006,
At time 4.40 (local time), the lavaflow that in the last days flowed along the est side of the crater in a big depression "voragine" was born during the eruption 2004/05, overflowed in direction of the base of the same crater. At 13.30 (local time), the lavaflow is already arrived at about 2.850 mt inside the Bove Valley.
Monday 4 September 2006
From the 21.45 (local time), to register the lavaflow from the summit of the south-est crater in the direction of the est side of the same crater, in diminution the explosive activity.
Thursday 31 August 2006
From the morning there is an explosive activity, of "stromboliana" type, from the summit of the south-est crater, with rumbles at regular intervals of 5-10 sec.
Wednesday 30 August 2006
At time 23.00 (local time), the seismographs of the INGV Catania, situated in the summit of Etna, have starting to register more seismic events.
After the eruption of last 14-23 july 2006, the south-est crater is in activity again.
Monday 4 September 2006
From the 21.45 (local time), to register the lavaflow from the summit of the south-est crater in the direction of the est side of the same crater, in diminution the explosive activity.
Thursday 31 August 2006
From the morning there is an explosive activity, of "stromboliana" type, from the summit of the south-est crater, with rumbles at regular intervals of 5-10 sec.
Wednesday 30 August 2006
At time 23.00 (local time), the seismographs of the INGV Catania, situated in the summit of Etna, have starting to register more seismic events.
Past Etna Eruptions