Mount Etna Volcano Update; 2,000 Foot High Lava Fountains, Flights Cancelled
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- The Mount Etna volcano just produced its first major eruption of 2024, with this occurring on July 4th and 5th. Over the span of several hours, towering lava fountains were created, sending lava fountains up to a height of 2000 feet into the air. This paroxysm occurred alongside heavy ash emissions, causing ash and lapilli to rain down on the city of Catania and causing 90 flights to be cancelled. While this paroxysm is now over, additional and potentially larger explosions and lava fountains could occur in the next several days to weeks.
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0:00 Powerful Etna Eruption
0:45 Ashfall
2:19 Lava Composition
3:11 Escalating Activity
3:41 Predictions
Hephaestus is working in the forge again!
Probably decided to make a pocket knife.
Nah, Mercury is certainly making swords
The Pyrovilles are at it again. (Doctor Who reference for those who are perplexed.)
Zeus needs more Thunderbolts
The cyclops too!
I visited Mount Etna about a week before it started erupting. Unfortunately it was a cloudy day, but it was still a wonderful experience that I would recommend to anyone who likes volcanoes
I ❤ Volcanoes🌋🤙🏼🌴
Nice, I might have been there on the same day. It was cloudy be were still able to see a few rocks flying trough the smoke
Ah yeah absolutely brilliant idea mate, I'm gonna go tomorrow where you were!
I was there too a week ago, and I am mad this didn't happen while I was there. 😮
I never met a volcano I didn’t like.
I had the pleasure of living near Mt. Etna on the naval base for three years in the late 90s. We had ash fall a few time during that time. It's a crazy experience.
Mt. Enta wanted in on the Fireworks....
I like visiting volcanos from the comfort of my couch
Does your couch teleport you to the site at a safe distance? 😂
😂😂😂😂@@Krakatoa78
New take on a flying carpet.
Written like a true nerd! 🤓👍
Ya made it to the couch , I'm still in bed 😂
I started getting volcano videos in my feed after watching something about Campi Flegrei. I like this channel as the thumbnails are not clickbaits and the videos are factual and not calling every eruption a catastrophe. While living in the shadow of a volcano seems scary when you've never been nowhere near one, I'm sure Etna's behavior is business as usual for Sicilians.
He once said humans had nothing to do with excess methane in the air.
Italy 😊
@@shaynewheeler9249 Yes, Etna is in Sicily, which is a large island in the Mediterranean Sea and belongs to Italy.
Since you asked once again for a video subject, considering what happened nearby, it's only natural for an update video for Stromboli, who did a lot of pyroclastic flows yesterday.
A hiker unfortunately was killed on Stromboli by an airborne rock. The authorities there also shut down inbound tourist traffic to the island.
Stromboli also produced a massive eruption that same day. Pyroclastic flows and lava flows down the Sciara del Fuoco!
It’s always that one spot where the pyroclastic flows and lava goes down which keeps the population safe
Wow, andI have seen both..just immense, awesome and beautiful and man cannot do anything about it.
Makes you wonder if people in the right spot in or along the Tyrrhenian Sea could have seen both volcanoes going at once.
THANKYOU FOR BOTH ENGLISH AND METRIC
MEASUREMENTS IT HELPS WHEN YOU ONLY
UNDERSTAND ONE OF THEM.
Are you aware that by using caps you're basically shouting?
@@kalinystazvoruna8702, WARE EAR MUFFS !
Typhon is pissed off again
Or Vulcan is doing overtime
Basaltic trachyandesite as the sweet spot for lava fountaining interesting. Yeah I remember "learning" that Etna was a basaltic stratovolcano but thanks to you and other geology sources I now know that is incorrect. I live to learn and am genuinely impressed how much info you can fit into a few minute video.
Had my flight canceled because of this, wasn't even mad. What a beautiful beast of a volcano
and Stromboli erupted at the same time too! I can't remember a time when they were both actively erupting together....
While stationed in Sicily in the early 90's, we climbed Etna 3 times to the crater. So cool up there! There was only one effusive eruption on the east flank, which the Navy Seabees helped divert away from a small town on the east flank, using helo's and K rails.
You know that you have been watching Geology Hub for a long time when you say "Paroxysm" before he does...... 😂❤😂
I've been watching since may 2021
Thanks as always! I saw this eruption yesterday on afar tv's livestreams. It was beautiful and powerful, and maybe a bit of dangerous at the same time!
Afar TV is excellent for volcanic footage,👍
I was fortunate enough to see the Mount Etna live stream come up in my TH-cam feed so I clicked 🤘🏼🤘🏼💥🤘🏼💥🤘🏼💥4th of July was in Italy this year not over here in good old Eramricka
Thanks for all the hard work on these videos
Thank you
That's one to enjoy but if Campi Flegrei goes off, which is likely, the fun is definitely over.
Define "likely"
@@scrappydoo7887 Run a search engine with "phlegraean fields update" and you see that recently it became very active and the fields really show signs that suggest an eruption.
Active means strong and plenty of earthquakes, land rising with increased speed. Weakened top rock layer (cap).
Not likely, but possible. Some experts say 95% chance of small to mid-sized eruption, some say it'll calm down like in 1980s. We can only hope it's the latter.
@@TarjaS-games I heard of the 95% so that stoked the "likely" in me. And small to medium size sounds quite awkward considering that it is a built up area.
I think we will see worldwide an increase in activity. It's a normal process for Earth.
We people have become very stiff in our approach and basing life on money is the worst thing for flexibility. But that's exactly what we humans somehow decided to base our lives on.
Thanks.
Watching from the PHILIPPINES where we have several active volcanoes.
thanks for the information and spectacular views
Thanks you do a great job and service by keeping us updated on volcanoes
Pizza 🍕🍔
Great report, nice photography work.
I loved the lava content breakdown ! 🌋
i have seen etna erupting from the ferry from messina. stayed at a hotel on etnas flanks but etna just smoked then :D
spectacular!!
I watched the live webcam of Mount Etna erupting and it was amazing especially at night. But at least no planes didn't go though the ash. But the flights are now not cancelled now.
Awesome
Pff, I was on Etna 3 weeks ago praying to see a lava fountain during the evening 😅 Seems like I have to return to Sicily
I would love a video on the New Madrid fault since it's relatively unknown but extremely dangerous.
Relatively unknown?
No it's not. At all
@scrappydoo7887 It's well known among the science literate. But I live in Kansas City and, even here, very few people are more than vaguely aware of it.
@@steveschutte4990 that's really quite depressing given the potential ramifications
@scrappydoo7887 Tell me about it. Even in St. Louis most people have little awareness of the threat.
For everyone living in Italy: Be careful of gas. There will be gasses that you cannot smell at some point.
For everyone else: Protect your lungs. Ashes are like glasspowder!
I had seen other videos about this buy I wanted to wait for your video on this matter as you are my go to for all matters vulcan.
First of all, thank you for this wonderful channel that provides all the news and scientific information as well. I wanted to ask if you could bring up the subject of the Syrian-African rift, since for example the Golan Heights located in Israel is full of volcanic history that has disappeared and apparently there should have been a continuation of the volcanic activity due to the proximity of the rift in the area, why then did the activity stop from taking place and even more from the fact that we see a lot of movement in the plates in the area with earthquakes in Turkey and Syria - and in the same matter if you could bring up the issue of the Israeli ridge line which is actually a line of volcanic ridges that stretch from the south to the north of the country that used to be volcanic
Thanks for your informative content. Can you please make a video on how different magma types interacting underground cause eruptions? Thank you!
The lavafalls look fascinating.
Hi. Thank you for another enlightening video and for all your great work!
Question: could you please make a video on what indicators to look at for a non-professional when traveling to the volcano area? Or even more, could you make an unbiased video for those who are considering moving to live near a volcano? What to learn, what to prepare for? How to properly assess if it's even worth moving to the area?
Thank you!
Could you go over what would happen if a meteor hit a volcano? I have been wondering for years and I would like to know your opinion on this hypothetical
Good question. It reminds me of the time when America bombed a volcano in Hawaii, Mauna Loa I believe, to redirect a lava flow
@@AaronGeo also Italy did it to Mt Etna in I believe 1960 to divert a lava flow or to break a lava tube.
Highly unlikely but the flood basalts at the antipode may result - see planet mercury!
You might want to take a look at the Bolaven volcanic field which has been identified as the probable site for the youngest large meteor impact 790,000 years ago. The crater itself based on gravity/density anomaly analysis appears to be around 17 kilometers across but has been completely filled in/ buried by lava but scientists were able to identify its location through indirect means most notably the ejecta blanket including large ejected blocks of material as well as the broadly distributed Australasian tektite field with the chemistry of those tektites suggesting part of their composition is due to hitting basaltic target rock. In essence Earth is big enough and old enough that this isn't a hypothetical. In general I would imagine the type of volcano in question matters more specifically in how things would play out this is after all just a basaltic volcanic field full of monogenic vents rather than a centralized edifice. Still the eruptions that followed the impact must have been quite a sight!
phys.org/news/2020-01-evidence-ancient-impact-crater-bolaven.html#:~:text=Evidence%20suggests%20ancient%20impact%20crater%20buried%20under%20Bolaven%20volcanic%20field,-by%20Bob%20Yirka&text=A%20team%20of%20researchers%20with,volcanic%20field%20in%20southern%20Laos.
Well, there will be a great disaster because a giant green monster will come out of the molten Meteorcano and take out the Colosseum with it's spiky tail, before returning to it's favorite place to trash, Tokyo.
I love your videos. Could you cover Volcán Barú in Panama at some point? It has an interesting history with huge collapses much bigger than mt st Helen’s I believe, and is still active
Etna is really huge. Of course the people living on the island of Sicily are familiar with it and keep their distance.
A fun and exciting time for the Italians!
Could you make a video on Stromboli’s recent strong activity?
OMG .
I would love to request some videos on the Volcanoes of the UK I'm from the UK and would love to know more about UK's volcanic past your videos have been very helpful to me
There are very few
@@scrappydoo7887Actually there are quite a few. A line of Early Tertiary volcanoes and lava fields down the west coast of Scotland and eastern Northern Ireland from Skye (the Cuillin Mountains) via Ardnamurchan and Mull to Arran and then the Antrim lavas, Mourne Mountains and Slieve Gullion;`
Ben Nevis, Devonian volcano punched through Proterozoic of Scottish Highlands;
The Cheviot, Devonian volcano on the England/Scotland border;
The Lake District, complex Ordovician stratovolcano tipped over on its side.
That's more than enough for Tim to make a short series of videos on.
Can you cover Stromboli's big eruption that took place on the same day? Within almost the same timeframe?
A lot worse than fireworks, yet it fertilized the soil
Yes, and carbon dioxide is plant food too... without a steady supply all plant life on Earth will die.
@@DoktorBayerischeMotorenWerke Etna's CO2 emissions are trivial compared to the human caused emissions in Italy.
@@TheDanEdwardsno. That is where you are incorrect
@@scrappydoo7887 Many times the CO2 of volcanoes have been studied. Go look them up. The quantity is much less than current human caused emissions.
@@TheDanEdwards You are obviously not a qualified Vulcanologist
The Stromboli pyroclastic footage was as spectacular as Etna *imho :D
In "Journey to the Center of the Earth" the explorers are expelled back to the surface via Mount Etna.
With Etna erupting so regualrly, I wonder if the Italians in charge of watching volcanoes even bother giving them VEI scores :D
Could you cover the ancient impact crater near Serpent Mound in Ohio, I've been there myself and would like to know more about it.
Anything going on at Davidoff in Alaska? I know it was raised to yellow sometime last year
I have a question. Some news articles claim this was the first eruption of Mt Etna in over 4 years. But I have seen many news items over many years reporting on constant eruptions every few weeks or months. So which is it?
On Mount Etna top there are 4 main vents. For the one that erupted yesterday (Voragine crater), was the first time in 4 years. But "south east crater" erupted more frequently in recent times, last time in December 2023.
Fun fact: This mountain once exploded so hard, its tidal wave blew away a Canaanite village.
Fact?
Perhaps you are thinking of Santorini?
Hum, what could be the most affordable fire proof & maybe lava proof stone?
Mainly with concern for all the lost houses/sanctuaries in Hawaii & Iceland.
I suppose basalt, it is local there
Missed title opportunity: God Celebrates 4th of July with Largest Fountain Display Ever Seen!
Nah. If the volcano were American it did make sense. Now it doesn't.
what kind of exit velocity would a boulder have to have to have it launched 2000 feet in the air?
@CTP1111You would need to know the mass of the boulder.Have you have to have the information?😂
@@jonathanlake6053The mass is in fact irrelevant
Ignoring air resistance and launched straight up, about 250 mph (= 110 meters/s).
@@GRosa wow!
Do a video on abyssal plains and how the ocean floor is flat but the water above curves with the globe! Please and thanks !
What? 🤔
@grosa , the oceans are made up of abyssal plains, please look this up for details, use any search engine. Then look at a diagram online of this abyssal plain and you’ll see flat water above and not curved. I’m suggesting this man does a video showing how the earth is a ball of 28,000 miles and is made up of mostly flat ocean!
Be amazing today!
Please do a Stormquake video
Does Etna have any chill? Like, any at all?
How come there is such a consitantly high amount of gasses underneath mount stromboli that its eruptions have the same characteristics over enough time for its particular patern of eruptions to be named after the vulcano? Maybe that could be a topic for another video.
There will be any video of Stromboli's latest activity?
The pronunciation of Voragine is vorujene and clearly spelt by syllabaes
3 minute gang what's erupting?! ✌️
Can you do a video on that "cold" lava eruption in Russia?
If this cancel or delay my trip to Italy im going to sue Etna.
They got there 4th of july fireworks
No. Nobody cares about your 4th bs
When has this happened before?
Throughout the history of the volcano, events like this have happened very regularly. Basically, ever since humans have witnessed its eruptions it has been doing things like this
Paroxysms generally happen every year on Etna, but prior to this one most had been taking place at the SE Crater. The last Voragine paroxysm occurred in 2015, and the last Voragine eruption occurred in 2020.
Thousands of times throughout the history of the volcano
I feel like Mt. Etna needs to be classed as a new eruption style, an Etnean eruption, characterized by frequent paroxysms, tall lava fountaining, and substantial lava flows. Of course, it is closely related to a Strombolian style, but far more vigorous than what Strombolian eruptions tend to pull off. Lava fountains upwards of 1km seem to be a very rare occurrence with somewhat different mechanisms to the typical much more gentle Strombolian activity.
Is it safe? I’m supposed to be in letojani on 16th July…
I would love to be there standing at a reasonably safe view point. But failing that, if somebody asked me to use the word paroxysm in a sentence, I could now do that.
And look at what just happened on the sun
A++++
Hmmm, I wonder if this is where the magma from Campi Flegrei went to when they had that deflation a couple of days ago. There's only 377 miles between them after all and that's nothing in a volcanic region
"only"
kermit the frog havin ahh voice
Shoulda also talked of Stromboli, it recently produced a pyroflow that reached the sea
Italy, showing up USA's fireworks XD
Albuquerque wrst side volcanos
What?
Take a shot every time he says " paroxysm(s) "
Aloha Geologists of the World. I'm on Kauai Hawaii and I have a question about the final resting place of some boulders. Also, the boulders are on a steep grade and 200' from the ocean to the top. Under the boulders is a material that is very brittle and looks like sand when crushed but more greyish and if you dig below the boulders and softer material you find nothing but red dirt. I'm truly baffled. Here's a few photos. I have thousands more if anyone is interested.
th-cam.com/users/shortscvobEV6nu_k?si=Bf6az3UiULCkPLgt
And mt Stromboli is erupt today
Stromboli red alert.
Projectile vomiting!
July the 4th celebrations!
You know that's an American thing right? This is not celebrated in Europe.
Nobody cares about your 4th bs
@@harrynac6017 maybe he is from USA so we commented
I've taken more screenshots from this channel than anything else on TH-cam.
Where's Greta protesting at the base.
Do you have any comments on the increasing tremour activity at the Cascadia fault? Apparently the highest number of earthquakes in one month was recorded there last month. Seems like it might blow soon ...
Take some sausages up for a BBQ..
earth quake next couple of days
I didn't know Mt Etna was American and wanted to celebrate the 4th
😂
Well, there goes Italy's chances of meeting EU carbon emissions goals!!!
No worries, we all simply pay higher taxes and that will fix the problem. 🙂
Human activity emits far more CO2 than volcanoes.
FIRST!
The word "paroxysm" is not used enough. Please reply with a witty statement using the word, "paroxysm". i.e. "I don't understand the emotional paroxysm of my wife when I leave the seat up on the toilet."
looked interesting but I could only listen to that voice for about 30 seconds! 👎
Your loss! Maybe you could learn to be more tolerant - we do not all speak the same, and nor should we. Or you could just mute the video, and follow it on the transcript.
Global warming caused this😂
I dont like these AI creepy voices.
Just stop
It is not AI voice I think
That's his real voice, no Al envolved
Is Vulcano OK! Or is it smoking? Stromboli is on the Tyrrheanin the island are there 7 island there
Stromboli is on the tyrrheanian sea not meditataranion, sicily is surrounded by 3 diffrerent current one just said, meditarenian and the Adriatic!
Is sicily going to pay a carbon tax for all the co2 being spewed into the atmosphere contributing to climate change, from this volcano???
Best 4th fireworks ever! 🌋💥🇮🇹🇺🇸🫡🎆🎉🇮🇹💫🇺🇸😆