l E Etna volcano has erupted on the Italian island of Sicily in the last hours leaving a spectacular river of lava by one of its sides and put on alert to local authorities.
The volcano's activity intensified on Wednesday night, leading to increased shortly after 22.48 local time. was visible from the cities of Catania and Taormina , and has diminished in early morning hours today, and, for now, have stopped the explosion of lava from the crater.
This decrease in volcanic activity has led to the reopening this morning from the airport of Catania, the second largest city in Sicily, which was closed as a precaution late in the afternoon yesterday at the possibility that the Etna could also expel ash.
According to scientists at INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy ), the recorded signals in recent days remind the preliminary stages of the violent eruptions 2006 and 2007 and it is possible that the lava running back down the slope in the coming hours.
The last major eruption of this volcano 45 kilometers in diameter located in eastern Sicily, which was accompanied by more than two hundred small earthquakes took place in May 2008. Etna, which inflates and deflates the pressure of internal magma expands each year more than an inch towards the sea, is about 3,322 meters high .
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