Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano erupted again lighting up the sky over much of eastern Sicily in Italy spewing ash, lava streaming down its sides and smoke rising from the crater.
The eruption, which began late Saturday and tapered off Sunday morning, didn’t endanger any of the villages dotting the mountain’s slopes, and no evacuation was ordered.
This is Etna’s first eruption in 2014 after a particularly active year in 2013, a result of a new crater forming on the southeastern side of the volcano. Aside from the airport closure in nearby Catania, there was minimal disruption.
Despite several inhabited villages dotting the mountain’s slopes, no evacuations were ordered as a result of the eruption. Etna erupts occasionally.
