Sicily's Mount Etna erupts in a fiery show of smoke and ash miles high

MILAN — Sicily’s Mount Etna enactment connected a fiery amusement Monday, sending a unreality of fume and ash respective kilometers (miles) into the air, but officials said the enactment posed nary information to the population.

The level of alert owed to the volcanic enactment was raised astatine the Catania airport, but nary contiguous interruptions were reported.

Tremors from the eruption were wide felt successful the towns and villages connected Mount Etna’s flanks, Italian media reported. Fabrizio Villa / Getty Images

Italy’s INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said the spectacle connected Europe’s astir progressive volcano was caused erstwhile portion of the southeast crater collapsed, resulting successful blistery lava flows. Officials said the enactment appeared to beryllium easing. It was the 14th eruptive signifier successful caller months.

The country of information was confined to the acme of Etna, which was closed to tourists arsenic a precaution, according to Stefano Branca, an INGV authoritative successful Catania.

Sicily’s president, Renato Schifani, said lava flows emitted successful the eruption had not passed the earthy containment area, “and posed nary information to the population.”

The lawsuit was captured successful video and photos that went viral connected societal media. Tremors from the eruption were wide felt successful the towns and villages connected Mount Etna’s flanks, Italian media reported.