Official South
Gianluca Giuffrè
Stromboli
Yesterday morning, around 11, the Stromboli is back to be felt two violent explosions from the summit craters. The roar shook the windows of homes on the island, including the village of Ginostra. A thick cloud of ash and sand is lifted into the sky to a height of nearly a mile and then fell on the villages.
The roar has been, moreover, even a full launch of incandescent lapilli which fortunately ended up near the crater and along the side of the Sciara del Fuoco. The eruptive activity of the volcano has increased substantially since the beginning of December so as to produce, In recent days, the lava flow was visible at night from the island of Panarea, Salina and Lipari.
For the islanders the explosion, which occurred yesterday, although very strong part of the new phase of eruptive activity of Stromboli (opened after 2002) and shows how certain events, despite the efforts of the experts, there may still be provided. The night the red lava reflecting on the white snow-covered peak of "Iddu" (so called Stromboli by its inhabitants) produced a spectacle of incomparable beauty attracting many visitors.
The event, experienced by the inhabitants of the island of Lipari, was registered by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology Catania noted that three 'movements in rapid sucessione that culminated in the explosion, which had an energy 5 times the daily average.
"From the crater - Mario Zaia said the guide - is a great escape and smoke swept by gusts of wind has also spilled across the lava." The situational
Stromboli for experts INGV has already returned to normal.
Meanwhile, an earthquake of magnitude 2.4 was felt at 15:07 of the population in the province of Catania and detected by the instruments of the INGV. The location next to the epicenter are the towns of Zafferana, S. Venerina and Milo. Checks carried out dalla Sala situazione Italia del dipartimento della Protezione civile non risultano danni a persone o cose.
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