Volcanoes of Italy

Volcano news from Italy:

Etna volcano: small explosion at Bocca Nuova

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

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Etna volcano: new paroxysm of New SE crater seems under way

Saturday, May 05, 2012

Since about 2 hours ago, tremor from Etna has started to rise steeply, suggesting that the next (26th) paroxysm of the New SE crater is probably immin... [more]

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Map of Italy's volcanoes (basemap created using UNAVCO Voyager map tool feat. Face of the Earth TM)

Stromboli volcano in eruption

Volcanoes of Italy (12 volcanoes)

Eolian Islands (3 volcanoes): Stromboli | Lipari | Vulcano

Italy is a volcanically active country, containing the only active volcanoes in mainland Europe. The country's volcanism is due chiefly to the presence, a short distance to the south, of the boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate. The magma erupted by Italy's volcanoes is thought to result from the upward forcing of rocks melted by the subduction of one plate below another.

Three main clusters of volcanism exist: a line of volcanic centres running northwest along the central part of the Italian mainland (see Campanian volcanic arc); a cluster in the northeast of Sicily; and another cluster around the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria.


Etna volcano in eruption (Feb. 2000)		Trees stripped off their branches by bombs and scoria during the oct. 2002 eruption
Warm underwater springs at Vulcano island (Eolian Islands)		Stromboli at full moon
Stromboli seen from the sea		Lava flow at Stromboli volcano

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