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Etna Showing Signs of Activity

2018-12-24 by Erika Southey MOUNT ETNA started spewing ash and lava after creating a new fissure high up on its southeastern flank on December 24, 2018. In the wake of the Indonesian tsunami caused by an underwater landslide at Anak Krakatau; Etna made its own...

ENIGMATIC ETNA: A PECULIAR VOLCANO

By ERIKA SOUTHEY EARLY signs of Etna’s (Aetna) violent nature could be seen in some verses of a poem by Publius Vergilius Maro written about 100 BC. “Here, while from Ætna’s furnaces the flame Bursts forth, Enceladus, ’tis said, doth lie, Scorched by the lightning. As...