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Tue, 3 Jun 2025, 21:00 1748984403 | BY: SEVERAL CONTRIBUTORS
Map of today’s active volcanoes
Screenshot of the time-lapse video showing the pyroclastic flow at Etna yesterday
The latest satellite imagery of Etna during its effusive-explosive eruption yesterday (image: European Space Agency Sentinel-2)
Satellite image of Ibu volcano on 3 Jun 2025
Etna (Sicily, Italy): Time-lapse videos from webcams allow to at least partially reconstruct the series of events at Etna yesterday: first, hot material rapidly accumulated on the eastern rim of the summit vent seemed to start sliding; the release of weight then seems to allow an explosion to take place, destabilizing a larger portion of the upper flank, thus generating a very large slide.
Due to the steep slope, acceleration is large: within seconds, the moving rock masses, disintegrating and mixing with air become a turbulent, hot, fluidized mixture (pyroclastic flow) that reaches the base of the cone
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