Mount Etna erupts as large plumes rise from Italian volcano

The Etna of the Italian Mount broke out, with great plumes of ash and smoke seen from the volcano.

The images and videos of the island of Sicily showed that volcanic equipment spread from the volcano on Monday morning.

A certain number of explosions of “growing intensity” were recorded on Monday morning, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Ingv) of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Ingv).

The full scale of the eruption is not clear and the disturbance seems to be minimal, the flights leaving and arriving as usual at the airports of the island.

Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, so the eruptions are not uncommon and its explosions rarely cause significant damage or injuries.

The ground movements indicated that the last eruption occurred at the southeast edge of the volcano, according to Ingv. This seems to be where there is a known 200 m wide vent.

Shared images throughout Monday show a rapid mixture of ash, gas and rock – known as pyroclastic flow – emerging from the site and moving on the side of the volcano.

Geologists monitoring the eruption said it was likely that part of the volcano crater collapsed and that it was the material transported on its slopes.

Pyroclastic flow can be very dangerous for the surroundings, but there has been no indication of an imminent threat.

In its latest update, Ingv noted that volcanic equipment had not yet exceeded the lion valley, the point on the summit approach where tourist trips stop.

Ingv said that he had first recorded changes in the activity of the volcano at 00:39 local time (22:39 GMT), before clarifying that there was a continuous “Strombolie” eruption.

The size of Strombolian eruptions can vary but are often characterized by intermittent explosions, which occur due to the presence of gas in the magmatic chamber in the volcano.

When gas bubbles reach the surface, they can suddenly burst, throwing material to the sky. The process is no different to let the gas come out of a carbonated drink.

These types of eruptions can be particularly dangerous for nearby planes.

A red alert would have been published earlier on Monday, perhaps suspended from the flights operating nearby, but it was then demoted.

The last notable eruption of Mount Etna came in February And made Catania airport of the island divert dozens of flights because of the ash clouds.

Tourists have also been warned to stay away from the volcano lava flows.