Lava fountains at Voragine seen from Montagnola (image: INGV Catania webcam)
A new lava-fountaining episode (paroxysm) is in progress from the Voragine summit crater.
Mild strombolian activity had restarted yesterday evening, accompanied by a short peak of volcanic tremor, then decreased over night again, but restarted and gradually intensified this afternoon.
The activity started to increase rapidly after sunset and turned to tall lava fountaining at around 10 pm, which is still in progress. An ash plume of several km height is rising from the summit and drifting SSE.
Approx. 1 km tall lava fountain seen on the thermal webcam from the west side of Etna (image: INGV Catania)