Mount Etna - 2000-2023

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Cards (15)

  • Italy, Sicily
  • Destructive
    Subduction - African under Eurasian
  • Every year since 2001
  • VEI 2/3
  • 77 confirmed deaths, all time
  • Ash and smoke to towns below
  • 2007 - 300 businesses, hundreds of hectares of forest, farms destroyed
  • 2002 - two tourist Stations, 2nd biggest airport closed, restaurants and ski lifts
  • 2007 - magma 100m, 1,000 leave homes
  • Dynamite in helicopter disperse lava flow
  • Force lava into artificial channels
  • Italian army divert lava flow - bulldoze channels
  • Dams of soil by Rifugio Sapienza
  • £5.6 million needed as financial aid
  • Property destroyed and built in new locations