9/7/07 Etna Updates

INGV relased four updates for Mount Etna today. Those are located here. All will need to be translated from Italian to English.

9/7/07 Etna Updates

INGV relased four updates for Mount Etna today. Those are located here. All will need to be translated from Italian to English.

Etna Update for 9/6/07

INGV’s Etna update can be found here.

Etna Update for 8/29/07

INGV has released an update for Mount Etna. As before the update is long and includes picutures and other information that cannot be relaied here. On that note you may find the update here.

Mount Etna Activity Update

INGV has released another extensive report on the current activity at Mount Etna. It is too long to and it also includes graphs and pictures that you would find interesting, therefore America’s Volcanoes will only provide a link to the current status report.

Current Mount Etna status may be found here.

8/23/07 Etna Update

INGV released an update on Mount Etna late on August 23. That update is to long to post here, however you may find it by following this link. You will have to copy the text of the pdf file into the Google Translate and translate the Italian into English.

8/23/07 Etna Update

INGV released an update on Mount Etna late on August 23. That update is to long to post here, however you may find it by following this link. You will have to copy the text of the pdf file into the Google Translate and translate the Italian into English.

Etna Update for 8/18/07

Current Etna status from INGV:

Modernization Etna activity
(18 August 2007, hours 9:30)

(times expressed in local hour)

The television cameras of surveillance of the INGV have shown the prosecuzione of the activity of degassamento with sporadic ash emissions in the zone sommita them of the volcano in last the 24 hours.

This morning to 7:45 has been carried out an overflight of the area sommita them of the Etna
with the helicopter put on hand from the Regional Civil Protection, making use of thermal television camera FLIR to high kindly granted definition in use from FLIR Systems.

The overflight has allowed to visionare in detail all the area sommita them and the inside of i
active craters. During the overflight, the Crater of IF it has produced various ash emissions
from the craterica depression that records its flank orients them. The small ash clouds
they raise for little tens of meters towards the high and come subsequently moved
laterally from the twenty, leaving to fall modest ash amounts on the flanks of
Crater of IF. The thermal images show the absence of eruttiva activity from craters
sommita them. The Crater of OF extension a impulsive degassamento associated weak people
thermal anomalies. The thermal reliefs show the presence of two weak people anomalies
thermal that borders the craterica depression on the flank of the Crater of IF and continues
towards east until the base of the cone. In this optical, the weak people ash emissions from this crater mostly seems connected to collapse phenomena, even if the ash capacity in cargo from the degassamento comes.

Meaningful variations of the activity of the volcano will be eventually marked.

Etna Update for 8/17/07-New Activity

According to INGV there is new activity at Mount Etna.

The 8/17/07 update on the new activty at Mount Etna from INGV, translated via Google:

Modernization Etna activity
(17 August 2007, hours 16:00 – times expressed in local hour)

Beginning from the morning of the day 15 August the surveillance television cameras of the National Institute of Geophysicist and Volcanology, Section of Catania, has evidenced the resumption of one blanda activity of ash emission on the top of the Etna.

The phenomenon inside happens of one formed craterica depression later on
to the eruttiva activity of the months slid on the flank it orients them of the Crater of IF. Small clouds of ash is raised for little tens of meters towards the high and comes subsequently moved laterally from the twenty, leaving to fall modest ash amounts on the flanks of the Crater of IF.

The issued ash yesterday morning has been collection in the vicinities of the aforesaid one
depression, where film has formed one extremely thin batch processing line and of color rossastro. The emitted ash, analyzed to the microscope to binoculare, has turned out
composed mostly from litico and altered material, of red color.

Although in the last hours the frequency of these emissions has been intensified for short
periods of time, to the state put into effect them this activity have not been accompanied give
audible outbreaks in the outskirtses of the Crater of IF. The issued ash is therefore attributable, to the state they puts into effect, is to modest landslide phenomena that happen along walls of the depression, are to the normal activity of present degassamento inside
of the craterica depression.

Meaningful variations of the activity of the volcano will be eventually marked.