General / Off-Topic In other news, mount Etna has erupted !

[askavir]

Of course, we don't want to go totally dark anyhow!



Looks like an interesting tour.
I've spent weeks at a time hiking/camping in and around our volcanoes.

Ours pretty mellow in that explosive respect and just flow or crumble along mostly...

From June:

Ah Kilauea, always guaranteed spectacle

I'd love to visit the Hawaian volcanoes, especially the summits of Kilauea, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea. Kilauea's summit collapse at the end of the eruption featured in that video was both impressive and terrifying, it dropped 300 meters a a few weeks, being now tha largest it ever was. It didn't swallow the nearby observatory by just a bit!

 

[Alien]

A thread about Mount Etna and no-one mentions it erupting in the 80's and losing a huge chunk of itself? (I can't remember if it was half, a third or a quarter).

 

[askavir]

A thread about Mount Etna and no-one mentions it erupting in the 80's and losing a huge chunk of itself? (I can't remember if it was half, a third or a quarter).

In the 80's it was, I believe, the last time an Etna's lava low reached all the way down into a town in the outskirts. But I don't think it lost a big chunk a the time, last time I'm aware Etna collapsed massively was hundreds of thousands of years ago, in a colossal landslide when the entire east side collapsed into the mediterranean, creating the huge rift valley that is nowadays known as the Valle De Bove.

Perhaps you might be confusing with a different volcano? Mount St Helens in the USA did erupt in 1980, it was together with Mount Pinatubo the largest eruptions of the XX century, and almost half the entire mountain collapsed in the first explosion (see below).

[video=youtube;UK--hvgP2uY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK--hvgP2uY[/video]

 

[AkenBosch]

A thread about Mount Etna and no-one mentions it erupting in the 80's and losing a huge chunk of itself? (I can't remember if it was half, a third or a quarter).

Oh, we *would* have noticed if that ever happened, as Askavir said you're probably confusing with St Helens. The largest recorded one in recent times for the Etna has been around 1992, it went on for something like a full year and almost wiped some nearby towns, I still remember as a child seeing in the news the helicopters dropping huge concrete blocks in the flow to slow down/deviate it from reaching the populated areas.

 

[Alien]

Perhaps you might be confusing with a different volcano? Mount St Helens in the USA did erupt in 1980, it was together with Mount Pinatubo the largest eruptions of the XX century, and almost half the entire mountain collapsed in the first explosion (see below).

I am, my apologies.

 

[Remus]

I don't know if it has anything to do with Etna, but temperatures here have suddenly fallen.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr[knocked out]