Mount Etna erupts with huge plume of ash; tourists seek safety [View all]
Source: USA Today
A volcanic eruption in Italy left people scurrying for cover from what officials are saying is a pyroclastic flow.
Several videos circulating online show people running as smoke from the side of Mount Etna, an active stratovolcano volcano in Sicily, filled the air on June 2.
Footage and photos were also shared by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in Italy. The government agency wrote in a translated post that a pyroclastic flow, a combination of ash, rock, and gas, "probably produced by the collapse of material from the northern side of the Southeast Crater."
The INGV added that the "explosive activity" has "moved to "a lava mountain." According to GB News, an international news outlet, a spokesperson for the institute explained that "the values of the tremor amplitude are currently high with a tendency to increase further."
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