Italy's Mount Etna on eruption alert after brief activity
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Pastor Dale Morgan
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Italy's Mount Etna on eruption alert after brief activity
* From: AAP
* January 13, 2011 9:42PM
ITALY'S Mount Etna has come back to life with a brief eruption that sent lava down its slopes and a cloud of ash into the sky, forcing the overnight closure of a nearby airport.
The volcanology institute in Catania, eastern Sicily, said today that a two-hour eruption overnight sent a little stream of lava down the eastern slope of the mountain.
Nobody was injured.
The volcano also spewed out ash, which rained down and forced Catania's Fontanarossa airport to shut down overnight, cancelling or diverting a few domestic flights.
Officials said the airport reopened early today.
Etna is Europe's most active volcano.
Its last major eruption was in 1992.
Italy's Mount Etna on eruption alert after brief activity
* From: AAP
* January 13, 2011 9:42PM
ITALY'S Mount Etna has come back to life with a brief eruption that sent lava down its slopes and a cloud of ash into the sky, forcing the overnight closure of a nearby airport.
The volcanology institute in Catania, eastern Sicily, said today that a two-hour eruption overnight sent a little stream of lava down the eastern slope of the mountain.
Nobody was injured.
The volcano also spewed out ash, which rained down and forced Catania's Fontanarossa airport to shut down overnight, cancelling or diverting a few domestic flights.
Officials said the airport reopened early today.
Etna is Europe's most active volcano.
Its last major eruption was in 1992.
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