Belgium TV, VRT, has been broadcasting images of an awakening Mt. Etna. What first started a few days ago as cracks showing and smokeplumes rising
has now turned into the volcano being fully active again, the bowl has filled up with red hot lava.
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13/09/2004 h 1340 - New effusiva fracture
One new effusiva fracture has been opened in the late morning in the zone of Goes them of the Bove. The new eruttiva mouth finds around to the 2500
meters of quota, there is a spillage of washes that it flows in a desert zone of the volcano and it does not create danger to the tourist structures
neither to the population.
13/09/2004 h 0900 - Eruption in course in Goes them of the Bove
The emission continues on the Etna of washes and the incandescent material flows in the desert one Goes them of the Bove, catching up pianoro that it
is found in the pressed ones of Centennial Mounts, to quota the 1,950 meters. The feeding is constant and the more advanced arm has covered beyond a
kilometer and it does not constitute some danger for the centers lives to you. From the crater of East South and the continuous fracture the gas
emission white man.
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Although lava is errupting from the volcano rather slowly, its still a dangerous situation, where loss of life and damages can be expected to be
high.
Lets hope this situation doesn't escalate and most citizens of the island can get out in time to avoid ultimate disaster.
Related News Links:
www.volcanoetna.com
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[edit on 9-13-2004 by Valhall]
