Cliff Notes – Mount Etna erupts in Sicily

Mount Etna has erupted, producing a significant ash plume and prompting tourists to evacuate from the area.
The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology reported increased volcanic tremors and intense explosive activity.
A “code red” aviation warning was issued by the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre Toulouse due to substantial ash presence in the atmosphere.

Mount Etna erupts in Sicily, sending huge plume of ash into sky and tourists fleeing | World News

Mount Etna in Sicily has erupted, sending a huge plume of ash into the sky.

Italy‘s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said it expected the erupting ash cloud to disperse in a west-southwest direction.

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The monitoring institute said the “amplitude values of volcanic tremors are currently high” and were “showing a tendency to increase”.

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Tourists running down the slopes

Italy’s most active volcano, Mount Etna, has started erupting—spewing lava and ash high into the sky.

Social media footage showed tourists running down the slopes as the highest active volcano in Europe erupted.

It added the eruptive activity 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 said.

The Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre Toulouse has issued a “code red” aviation warning, advising planes that a significant volume of ash in the atmosphere is likely.

Mount Etna is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. It was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2013.