Shortly before 13.00 today, May 19, there was an explosion of Stromboli in the Aeolian Islands which caused a large cloud of ash with the launch of incandescent lapilli and a large lava flow. The phenomenon is still ongoing. The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology of the Etneo Observatory confirmed this through a press release.

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 Eruption of the Stromboli volcano - Markos90 - CC BY 2.0

Stromboli, is considered among the most active volcanoes in the world, its persistent eruptive activity with an open duct is precisely called "Strombolian". Recall that the volcano is called by its inhabitantsIddu which in Sicilian dialect means He in reference to the divine nature that was once attributed to uncontrollable natural phenomena.

Strong eruption of Stromboli: cloud of ash, lapilli and lava last edit: 2021-05-19T18:11:42+02:00 da Emmanuel Ferlaino

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