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S icily's Mount Etna has erupted again with an intensity not seen since February 2021. The eruption has sent a cloud of ash, smoke and lapilli a few kilometres above Europe's largest active volcano.

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

Our bed of gravelly black lapilli was warm, as if heated by an electric blanket. At my knee, ... Volcanologists estimate that the volcano started forming some 370,000 years ago.

At 2 p.m., the volcano began to spew pumice mixed with gas. Over the next four hours, roofs began to cave in under the weight of the pumice lapilli, causing some supporting walls to crumble as well.

Archaeologists uncovered the remains of a Pompeii family's desperate survival attempt during the Mt. Vesuvius eruption, revealing how victims barricaded themselves as disaster struck.

While the excavation of a home in Pompeii was underway, a large entrance hall leading to an atrium, a bedroom and a banquet hall were found. It was there they also discovered how a family inside th… ...

The volcano showed signs of erupting in the late morning, then really blew around 1 p.m. "People were caught by the eruption during their every-day activities," says Sparice. An eruption column, tens ...

Volcanoes are natural laboratories in which chemical processes are conducted on a grand ... The nature of their solid products, lava, scoria, lapilli, and ashes, have been carefully studied, ...

Small rock and ash particles, collectively known as pumice lapilli, rained down on Pompeii, according to geological analysis of the different layers. This alarming rain would have sent some people ...

Mount Etna is the highest active volcano in the whole of Europe, and today, June 2, the molten rock has begun erupting. Tourists and locals alike are fleeing for their lives as a gigantic plume of ...