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The Journal
4 days ago
- The Journal
Tourists flee as Mount Etna unleashes powerful early-morning eruption
#Etna Collassa porzione del cratere, grosso flusso piroclastico — Local Team (@localteamit) June 2, 2025 MOUNT ETNA, EUROPE'S most active volcano, erupted early this morning and sent massive plumes of ash and smoke into the Sicilian sky, causing panic among locals and tourists. According to the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in Toulouse, ash plumes rose to around 6,400 metres high, triggering a 'code red' aviation alert. A code red means that there is a 'significant' amount of ash in the atmosphere. Despite the alert, the eruption will cause no threat to the public, experts have said. Footage widely shared on social media shows panicked tourists fleeing the slopes of Etna as ash began falling and tremors were felt in nearby communities. Advertisement #Etna 2025 suite de l'éruption — 🥗Aurelien Pouzin🍯 (@aurelienpouzin) June 2, 2025 Despite the eruption, Sicily's Catania International Airport remained open and operational, though authorities warned of potential flight disruptions if ash levels increase. Italian civil aviation is yet to close any airspace. Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) have said that they are closely monitoring the event. Smoke billows from Mount Etna volcano, Italy. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo The institute suggested the eruption may have been caused by a partial collapse of Etna's southeast crater, although no lava flows had breached the Etna Valley by this afternoon. No injuries or fatalities have been reported. Additional reporting from AFP Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone... A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation. Learn More Support The Journal
News18
4 days ago
- News18
Tourists Flee As Italy's Mount Etna Erupts, Spews Ash Thousands Of Feet Into The Air
Last Updated: Italy's Mt Etna, one of the world's most active volcanoes, erupted on Monday, sending ash and rock "several kilometres high" in the air and molten lava down its slopes. Tourists fled as Italy's Mount Etna volcano erupted on Monday, sending a plume of high-temperature gases, ash and rock 'several kilometres high" into the air and rivers of molten lava down its slopes, according to Italian authorities. The volcano, located on the Italian island of Sicily, is a popular tourist destination visited by 1.5 million people every year. It is one of the world's most active volcanoes, but no eruption of the magnitude seen today had occurred since 2014, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology Observatory. The eruption, which began overnight, produced explosions audible as far as 40-50 km away in the areas of Taormina and Catania, CNN reported. Videos on social media showed the sky covered in plumes of smoke and ash high into the air. #Etna Collassa porzione del cratere, grosso flusso piroclastico — Local Team (@localteamit) June 2, 2025 CLIMATE CHANGE – Mount Etna's just coughed up more carbon and sulfur in 24 hours than a year of British farming…But don't worry, pay more tax to subsidise global corporations and that will definitely save the planet 🤡 — Bernie (@Artemisfornow) June 2, 2025 Another video showed crowds of people rushing downhill to escape the eruption, while the owner of a tour company told CNN that 40 visitors were on the Sicilian volcano at the time of the blast. The Italian observatory said a 'partial collapse" was observed on the northern flank of the volcano's southeast crater. It defined the volcanic activity as a pyroclastic eruption, resulting in a 'significant increase in volcanic tremor and the formation of an eruptive column containing a lethal mixture of high-temperature gases, lava grains, volcanic ash, and rock fragments of various sizes that rapidly descends down the slopes of the volcano." Despite the intensity of the eruption, no major casualties were reported in the area. Local officials said evacuation orders were not necessary and life continued undisturbed in the towns near Mt Etna, which were well accustomed to frequent eruptions. Sicily's president, Renato Schifani, said lava flows emitted in the eruption had not passed the natural containment area, 'and posed no danger to the population." The Sicilian Civil Protection agency issued a Volcanic Observatory Notice for Aviation (VONA), which means all flight travel must avoid the area. While the airports in Catania and Palermo remain open, some flights have been diverted. Mount Etna is considered as the most active volcano in Europe and the most active stratovolcano globally. A stratovolcano refers to a cone-shaped volcano, usually featuring a central crater, and is built up over thousands of years by successive layers of lava from repeated eruptions. First Published: June 02, 2025, 20:08 IST
Daily Tribune
14-03-2025
- Climate
- Daily Tribune
Quake damages buildings, sparks panic in Italy's Naples
A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck the volcanic area around Naples overnight, causing several light injuries, damaging buildings and sending terrified residents into the streets, officials said yesterday. The quake, which was followed by several much smaller tremors, was the biggest to hit the Campi Flegrei (Phlegraean Fields) area in southern Italy for 10 months. It occurred around 1:25 am (0025 GMT) at a depth of 2.5 kilometres, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), and raised residents from their beds. 'We can't go on like this, we can't sleep. We're scared,' one man told the Local Team news service in the middle of night in Bagnoli, a seaside district in western Naples. Images broadcast by Italian media showed car windows smashed by falling masonry and damage to a church in Bagnoli, where schools were closed yesterday. One women was hurt when her ceiling collapsed, while two or three other people went to hospital with cuts caused by shards of broken glass, according to Naples mayor Gaetano Manfredi. A total of 11 people went to emergency rooms of local hospitals but several 'were cases of panic', he told reporters. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she was constantly monitoring the situation and was in contact with the relevant officials.
Khaleej Times
13-03-2025
- Climate
- Khaleej Times
Quake damages buildings, sparks panic in Italy's Naples
A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck the volcanic area around Naples overnight, causing several light injuries, damaging buildings and sending terrified residents into the streets, officials said on Thursday. The quake, which was followed by several much smaller tremors, was the biggest to hit the Campi Flegrei (Phlegraean Fields) area in southern Italy for 10 months. It occurred around 1:25 am (0025 GMT) at a depth of 2.5 km, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), and raised residents from their beds. "We can't go on like this, we can't sleep. We're scared," one man told the Local Team news service in the middle of night in Bagnoli, a seaside district in western Naples. Images broadcast by Italian media showed car windows smashed by falling masonry and damage to a church in Bagnoli, where schools were closed on Thursday. One women was hurt when her ceiling collapsed, while two or three other people went to hospital with cuts caused by shards of broken glass, according to Naples mayor Gaetano Manfredi. A total of 11 people went to emergency rooms of local hospitals but several "were cases of panic", he told reporters. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she was constantly monitoring the situation and was in contact with the relevant officials. Seismic activity is nothing new in the area, which is an active caldera — the hollow left after an eruption — the largest in Europe. It stretches from the outskirts of Naples into the sea, measuring some 12 by 15 km. But many of the 500,000 inhabitants living in the danger zone had already been spooked by a 4.4-magnitude quake in May 2024, which was the biggest for 40 years. At that time, there were no injuries or any major structural damage. Naples mayor Manfredi told RTL radio that Thursday's quake was a "particularly intense tremor", similar to that of last year but "with an epicentre closer to the city of Naples, so it was felt more in the city". He said a group of people tried to enter the closed former Nato base in Bagnoli, presumably for protection. "There was a moment of panic... but then everything calmed down," he said, adding: "Obviously these are moments in which people are afraid." Manfredi said the situation was "under control". The eruption of Campi Flegrei 40,000 years ago was the most powerful in the Mediterranean. A resurgence of seismic activity in the early 1980s led to a mass evacuation which reduced the nearby city of Pozzuoli to a ghost town. Specialists, however, say a full-blown eruption in the near future remains unlikely.
