NEWS HEADLINES: WILD Footage Of Volcanic Eruption Sends Tourists Panicking * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Danielle

WILD Footage Of Volcanic Eruption Sends Tourists Panicking * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Danielle

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Italy’s Mount Etna, located on the eastern coast of Sicily, violently erupted and sent visitors rushing to seek safety.

Italian authorities said the explosion blew a plume of ash, gases, and rock several kilometers high.

Footage showed people fleeing for safety.

WATCH:

Per USA TODAY:

Footage and photos were also shared by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in Italy. The government agency wrote in a translated post that a pyroclastic flow, a combination of ash, rock, and gas, “probably produced by the collapse of material from the northern side of the Southeast Crater.”

The INGV added that the “explosive activity” has “moved to “a lava mountain.” According to GB News, an international news outlet, a spokesperson for the institute explained that “the values of the tremor amplitude are currently high with a tendency to increase further.”

Europe’s largest and most active volcano, Mount Etna, is located on the eastern coast of Sicily, Italy, in the province of Catania, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The active stratovolcano is known for its frequent and persistent eruptions, and volcanic activity in the region can range from explosive eruptions to lava flows and ash emissions, USGS says.

Additional footage:

CNN reports:

Giuseppe Panfallo, a guide with Go Etna, filmed his tour group huddled together with an enormous ash cloud in the distance.

“We were nearly grazed, look at this cloud here. We were two steps away and thank goodness we have a responsible guide with us,” he says in the video shared with CNN.

“It arrived all at once, an immense smoke, immense, immense roar.”

About a dozen tour operators work on Etna at any given time, the Sicilian Civil Protection Agency told CNN, adding that they are contacting all of them to ensure everyone is accounted for.

The volcano on the Italian island is a popular tourist destination visited by 1.5 million people a year, many of whom trek almost all the way to its summit.

Although Mt. Etna is one of the world’s most active volcanos, there hasn’t been an eruption of this magnitude since 2014, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology Observatory.

These eruptions often stop as quickly as they start, the observatory added, though explosions are still increasing in intensity and the mountain is spewing out a very small amount of lava and fire.





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