MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

“(WAPA) – The Etna volcano has greeted new year with an eruption of Strombolian type this morning that has provoked a 5,000 m smoke column high (at the moment) that constitutes potential danger at the arriving and departing activity of airplanes in Catania’s airport.

The task-force present on the air station has decided the limitation of air traffic until 2:00pm of today, when the unit will gather again.

At the moment in which we write the eruptive activity has finished, but remain problems linked to the volcanic ash cloud, whose move has continuously controlled.

“The limitations will not cause significant changes at the scheduled flights in consideration of the reduced number of aircraft movements planned daily for the interested period”, is read in a press-release issued by the airport’s management society.

The effusive activity of Strombolian kind is characterized from magma (from basaltic to intermediate) sticky in a medium manner, that provoke a permanent activity from emission at regular intervals of lava fountains and pieces that reach hundred of meters of high, and from the launch of lapillus and volcanic bombs.” Source – Avionews.