Mount Etna in Sicily has erupted, sending an enormous plume of ash into the sky.
Social media footage confirmed vacationers working down the slopes as the best lively volcano in Europe erupted.
Italy’s Nationwide Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology stated it anticipated the erupting ash cloud to disperse in a west-southwest course.
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The monitoring institute stated the “amplitude values of volcanic tremors are currently high” and have been “showing a tendency to increase”.
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It added the eruptive exercise has “continued with strombolian explosions of increasing intensity that, at the moment, are to be considered to be very intense and almost continuous”.
“In the last few hours there’s been reports of [a] little thin ash in Piano Vetore,” the institute stated.
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The Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre Toulouse has issued a “code red” aviation warning, advising planes {that a} important quantity of ash within the ambiance is probably going.
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Mount Etna is likely one of the world’s most lively volcanoes. It was added to the listing of UNESCO World Heritage Websites in 2013.
