Detecting strain with a fiber optic cable on the seafloor offshore Mount Etna, Southern Italy

A lava flow simulation model for the development of volcanic hazard maps for Mount Etna (Italy)

Volcanic hazard assessment is of paramount importance for the safeguard of the resources exposed to volcanic hazards. In the paper we present ELFM, a lava flow simulation model for the evaluation of the lava flow hazard on Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy), the most important active volcano in Europe. The major contributions of the paper are: (a) a detailed specification of the lava flow simulation mo...

Volcanic Plume Elevation Model Derived From Landsat 8: examples on Holuhraun (Iceland) and Mount Etna (Italy)

A Cellular Automata Methodology for Evaluating Lava Flow Hazard at Mount Etna (italy)

Different worldwide volcanic areas are densely populated and urbanized. For instance, in Italy, despite being the most active volcano in Europe, Mt Etna is home to approximately one million people. During the last decades, the vulnerability of the Etnean area has increased exponentially due to continued, at times wild, urbanization, with the consequence that new eruptions may involve even great...

Cycles and trends in the recent eruptive behaviour of Mount Etna (Italy)

Mount Etna is among the few volcanoes on Earth that erupt nearly continuously, but its activity (in terms of output rate and flank eruption frequency) undergoes significant fluctuations in time. Such fluctuations do not occur randomly, but represent various stages of cycles on a scale of decades and centuries. Recurrent patterns are particularly evident since 1865, with four complete cycles and...

Volcanic conduit migration over a basement landslide at Mount Etna (Italy)

The flanks of volcanoes may slide in response to the loading of the edifice on a weak basement, magma push, and/or to tectonic stress. However, examples of stratovolcanoes emplaced on active landslides are lacking and the possible effects on the volcano dynamics unknown. Here, we use aeromagnetic data to construct a three-dimensional model of the clay-rich basement of Etna volcano (Italy). We p...