Mount Etna spews uncommon volcanic vortex rings
Mount Etna, the rambunctious volcano connected the Italian land of Sicily, grumbled backmost to beingness connected Monday, spewing blistery ash and lava successful a pyroclastic flow, the nation's volcano monitoring assemblage said. There was nary contiguous study of immoderate hazard to the section population, which is accustomed to Etna's predominant eruptions, oregon to aerial travel.
The volcano department, which is tally by Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology, noted connected Monday "explosions of expanding intensity" that it said were "almost continuous."
By noon section time, INGV Vulcani said successful a societal media station that the "explosive enactment from the Southeast Crater has go a lava fountain," and infrared images posted by the radical showed the travel of lava down the mountain's face.
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Posted by INGVvulcani on Monday, June 2, 2025Video shared earlier connected the institute's Facebook leafage showed a monolithic plume of fume and ash rising into the wide bluish sky.
Mount Etna is considered the astir progressive volcano successful Europe, and the astir progressive stratovolcano successful the world. A stratovolcano — what galore radical deliberation of erstwhile they perceive the connection volcano — is the conical type, often with a cardinal crater, that is formed by furniture upon furniture of lava from repeated eruptions implicit the millennia.
A screengrab from video posted by the Volcano Department of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology shows Mount Etna connected Sicily erupting connected June 2, 2025.
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Etna had a important eruption conscionable implicit a twelvemonth ago, erstwhile it treated watchers to uncommon ring-like clouds puffed retired by its crater, known arsenic vortex bubbles. (See the video astatine the apical of this article.)
Etna has erupted astatine slightest erstwhile each twelvemonth for the past respective years, sometimes covering adjacent towns successful a furniture of volcanic dust, but causing nary large problems otherwise.
Tucker Reals is CBSNews.com's overseas editor, based successful the CBS News London bureau. He has worked for CBS News since 2006, anterior to which helium worked for The Associated Press successful Washington, D.C., and London.
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