Mount Etna, the volcano that towers over eastern Sicily, evokes superlatives.
It is Europe’s most active volcano and also the continent’s largest. And the fiery, noisy show of power it puts on for days or weeks, even years every so often, is always spectacular.
Fortunately, Etna’s latest eruption captivating the world’s attention has caused neither injuries nor evacuation.
But each time it roars back into dramatic action, it wows onlookers and awes geologists who spend their careers monitoring its every quiver, rumble and belch.
A fiery river of glowing lava flows from Mount Etna (Salvatore Allegra/AP)
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