Mount Etna eruption dwell updates: Europe’s highest energetic volcano erupts in Italy sending vacationers fleeing | EUROtoday

Tourists fled from the perimeters of Sicily’s Mount Etna on Monday after it erupted, sending dense clouds of ash and gasoline miles into the sky.

Dozens of individuals have been seen scrambling down Europe’s largest energetic volcano after it was shaken by tremors that have been extensively felt in surrounding cities and villages.

Billowing clouds have been seen from a ways, with photos exhibiting the eruption seen from the Ancient Theatre of Taormina, about 45 kilometres away.

Mount Etna has erupted, sending a kilometres-high plume of ash into the sky and sending vacationers fleeing from the favored World Heritage space.

Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology stated the eruption started round 3.50am native time (2.50am BST), following volcanic tremors which started round midnight native time.

The institute stated eruption exercise has continued since then with “increasing intensity” and was at present “almost continuous”.

Back in 2024, a 55-year-old American vacationer died after being taken unwell throughout an tour on the southern facet of Mount Etna, in Sicily/

Rescuers stated the reason for his sickness was unknown, however warned towards the danger of excessive temperatures coupled with humidity that will show harmful for vacationers who often don’t have any particular preparation for such excursions.

Read our piece on the tragic incident under.

The volcano is among the world’s most energetic, reminiscent of in February this 12 months when it spewed sizzling ash and lava. This time round, a pyroclastic movement of sizzling rock, ash, and gasoline was seen falling round 11.30am, whereas a fountain of lava was emitted from its southeast crater.

Read our dispatch from Sicily, as vacationers arrive within the Italian island to see the eruption of Mount Etna.

Earlier, we reported that there had been a serious eruption at Mount Etna in February, previous to at this time’s incident.

Below, you’ll be able to learn a report from February, detailing how vacationers have been found speeding in direction of – not away from – the spewing, Sicilian lava.

Local Scottish outlet EdinburghLive is carrying eyewitness stories from holidaymakers on board an EasyJet flight to Sicily from the Scottish capital.

Passengers flying over the island watched Mount Etna erupt as they have been getting ready to land.

A 33-year-old passenger instructed the native outlet: “If I’m honest, I don’t think anyone knew at all what was going on, and I didn’t want to alarm anyone by announcing that I thought that was the volcano erupting!

“It wasn’t until we landed and checked our phones that everyone started panicking a little bit.”