From a distance, Sicily’s Mount Etna looks like your basic stratovolcano: large and pointy-topped with lots of lava flows on its slopes. Extra points for
Tag: Italian volcanoes
Guest Video: Stromboli Erupts
This Italian volcano is usually active, with low-level gassy explosions. Not so today. Per the latest news report, at least one person is dead. Official
The Campania Plain, Part 5: Neapolitan Volcano Hazards
Campania has good reason to be proud of its volcanoes: Asleep, these beautiful but strange mountains draw tourists and also serve as ground water aquifers
The Campania Plain: Part 4, Campi Flegrei
Gah! But close up, Campi Flegrei (the “Burning Fields”) is actually quite pretty. Look for saddle-shaped Vesuvius in the background from time to time, starting
The Campania Plain: Part 3, Vesuvius
It’s time to look out over the Gulf of Naples from Mount Vesuvius on a sunny Mediterranean day! That landmass you see at the start,
The Campania Plain: Part 2, Ischia Volcano
No, Italy’s beautiful Monte Epomeo, shown above, is not the volcano. This mountain is “just” a block of 50,0000-year-old greenish ignimbrite pushed up by volcanic
