03 April 2021 (02:57-UTC-07 Tango 06) 14 Farvardin 1400/20 Sha’ban 1442/22 Ren-Chen 4719
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Second Class Austin Ingram.
This photo, taken from a U.S. Navy (USN) P-8A Poseidon, shows Mount Etna on 14JAN2021, before the eruptions started.
U.S. Navy photo by Captain Kevin Pickard, Junior.
As if dealing with pandemic panic-attack restrictions wasn’t enough, the personnel on U.S. Naval Air Station Sigonella have also been on alert since Mount Etna began erupting in February 2021.
USN photo by Captain Kevin Pickard, Junior.
NASA photo from 2006.
Mount Etna is located on Sicily, just off the toe of the Italian boot. It is considered one of the most active volcanos on Earth.
USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Zach Dalton.
Another eruption, 04MAR2021. Since 16FEB2021, there have been at least 17 ‘ lava fountain episodes or paroxysms’. Writers at Volcano Discovery stated that “This eruptive episode had been very remarkable, even for Etna standards…”
USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Zachary Dalton.
Compare this photo, taken in November 2020, to the one taken on 04MAR2021.
Day and night video by Michele Mammino, of the New South East Crater, recorded at the end of March 2021:
Pacific Ring of Fire, January 2020: ZOMBIE WHALES!
Volcanos, 2018: VOLCANOES & GLACIERS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING?