IN PICTURES: Italy's Etna spews smoke and ash forcing airport closure
Mount Etna, one of the world's most active volcanoes, belched smoke and ashes in a new eruption on Monday, forcing the temporary closure of the airport of Catania in Sicily.
The ash cloud rose 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) into the air above a crater on the south-east of the volcano, the INGV National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology said on Twitter.
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The nearby Vincenzo Bellini international airport in Catania closed at lunchtime Monday until further notice, with inbound flights diverted to Palermo.
https://twitter.com/mr__freddo/status/1495743691360989188
READ ALSO: IN PHOTOS: A month of spectacular eruptions at Sicily’s Mount Etna
https://twitter.com/itsmeback_/status/1495755256311033857
Ash covered roads, balconies and roofs of towns nearby, Italy's Civil Protection Agency said.
https://twitter.com/localteamtv/status/1495736582510645255
INGV said it had recorded a gradual rise in volcanic-seismic tremor -- induced by escaping gases -- which could be a sign that Etna is heading towards another spectacular burst of fiery lava fountaining, known as paroxysmal activity.
https://twitter.com/paolocatanese/status/1495766367542390787
At 3,324 metres (nearly 11,000 feet), Etna is the tallest active volcano in Europe and has erupted frequently in the past 500,000 years.
On Twitter, Italians joked about the eruption.
"Your majesty Etna, can we get a break? Not five minutes goes by that you have to play some little joke on us?" read one.
https://twitter.com/Ninah04282351/status/1495769572435243009
Pointing out that the same event happened almost to the week last year, one Twitter user wrote, "Etna why do you like the month of February, do you want to tell us something?"
https://twitter.com/anna_mar_f/status/1495762753449086977
And another called for "A minute of silence for all the laundry hanging up in Catania right now."
https://twitter.com/veronsturn/status/1495760901785460741
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The ash cloud rose 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) into the air above a crater on the south-east of the volcano, the INGV National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology said on Twitter.
[embed]http://twitter.com/INGVvulcani/status/1495724356684722176?cxt=HHwWgMC9oZbY8MEpAAAA[/embed]
The nearby Vincenzo Bellini international airport in Catania closed at lunchtime Monday until further notice, with inbound flights diverted to Palermo.
https://twitter.com/mr__freddo/status/1495743691360989188
READ ALSO: IN PHOTOS: A month of spectacular eruptions at Sicily’s Mount Etna
https://twitter.com/itsmeback_/status/1495755256311033857
Ash covered roads, balconies and roofs of towns nearby, Italy's Civil Protection Agency said.
https://twitter.com/localteamtv/status/1495736582510645255
INGV said it had recorded a gradual rise in volcanic-seismic tremor -- induced by escaping gases -- which could be a sign that Etna is heading towards another spectacular burst of fiery lava fountaining, known as paroxysmal activity.
https://twitter.com/paolocatanese/status/1495766367542390787
At 3,324 metres (nearly 11,000 feet), Etna is the tallest active volcano in Europe and has erupted frequently in the past 500,000 years.
On Twitter, Italians joked about the eruption.
"Your majesty Etna, can we get a break? Not five minutes goes by that you have to play some little joke on us?" read one.
https://twitter.com/Ninah04282351/status/1495769572435243009
Pointing out that the same event happened almost to the week last year, one Twitter user wrote, "Etna why do you like the month of February, do you want to tell us something?"
https://twitter.com/anna_mar_f/status/1495762753449086977
And another called for "A minute of silence for all the laundry hanging up in Catania right now."
https://twitter.com/veronsturn/status/1495760901785460741
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