Sicily’s Mount Etna erupts in a fiery show of smoke and ash miles high
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MILAN — Sicily’s Mount Etna put on a fiery show Monday, sending a cloud of smoke and ash several kilometers (miles) into the air, but officials said the activity posed no danger to the population.
The level of alert due to the volcanic activity was raised at the Catania airport, but no immediate interruptions were reported.
Tremors from the eruption were widely felt in the towns and villages on Mount Etna’s flanks, Italian media reported. Fabrizio Villa / Getty Images
Italy’s INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said the spectacle on Europe’s most active volcano was caused when part of the southeast crater collapsed, resulting in hot lava flows. Officials said the activity appeared to be easing. It was the 14th eruptive phase in recent months.
The area of danger was confined to the summit of Etna, which was closed to tourists as a precaution, according to Stefano Branca, an INGV official in Catania.
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 event was captured in video and photos that went viral on social media. Tremors from the eruption were widely felt in the towns and villages on Mount Etna’s flanks, Italian media reported.
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