According to the newspaper Corriere della Sera, the eruption of Mount Etna, which began on August 6th, is the most energetic of recent episodes and continues relatively continuously. Volcanologist Marco Viccaro, professor of Geochemistry and Volcanology at the University of Catania and president of the Italian Association of Volcanology, states that the magma now active comes from deeper zones of the volcano's feeding system and is "more gas-laden, therefore more efficient" in producing ash.
Viccaro places the change in pattern two years ago, when the Voragine crater experienced a sequence of six paroxysmal episodes. Since then, according to him, Voragine has become the structural point for all the eruptive activity of Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe.
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Read the original article in Italian at Corriere della Sera.
