Inventory of paroxysms at Etna (1979 – 2018)
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This inventory contains the major explosive events at the summit craters of Etna since 1979. The effusive flank eruptions are not listed here.
| Start | End | S02 alt (km) | Mass (kt) | Sensors | Notes |
| 04/08/79 | 8.4 | 10 | Nimbus-7 TOMS | Smithsonian bulletin | |
| 02/09/80 | 9 | 61 | Nimbus-7 TOMS | ||
| 06/09/80 | 13.4 | 9.1 | Nimbus-7 TOMS | ||
| 30/11/86 | 8.4 | 10 | Nimbus-7 TOMS | ||
| 19/09/89 | 8.4 | 37 | Nimbus-7 TOMS | ||
| 15/01/90 | 8.4 | 10 | Nimbus-7 TOMS | ||
| 25/07/01 | 8.4 | 10 | Earth Probe TOMS | ||
| 27/10/02 | 13.4 | 80 | Earth Probe TOMS | ||
| 16/11/06 | 4 | 1.5 | aura OMI | ||
| 21/11/06 | 5 | 7.8 | aura OMI | ||
| 29/03/07 | 8.4 | 5 | aura OMI | ||
| 11/04/07 | 5 | 5.5 | aura OMI | ||
| 07/05/07 | 8.4 | 2.3 | aura OMI | ||
| 29/07/07 | 6 | 4 | aura OMI | ||
| 04/09/07 | 5 | 12 | aura OMI | Lava fountain after 4pm (BGVN 32:09) | |
| 24/11/07 | 7 | 10 | aura OMI | Started 22/11 end afternoon and increased the 23 (BGVN 3301) | |
| 10/05/08 | 6 | 20 | aura OMI | 2-6pm (BGVN 3305) | |
| 13/05/08 | 5 | 26.5 | aura OMI | ||
| 12/01/11 | 13/01/11 | 7 | 7.4 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Clear sky. Strong growh of NSEC, small landslides within crater depression. Main fountain duration 4 hours. Volume 1.5 millions of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 100m3/s |
| 18/02/11 | 8 | 8 | aura OMI | Cloudy | |
| 10/04/11 | 5 | 5 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Clear sky. Main fountain duration 8 hours. Volume 0.9 millions of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 30 m3/s | |
| 11/05/11 | 12/5/2011 | 6 | 6 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Clear sky. Main fountain duration 9 hours. Volume 1.5 million of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 40 m3/s |
| 09/07/11 | 7 | 2.7 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Clear sky. Dense eruptive plume, ash and lapilli fall. Main fountain duration 4 hours. Volume 1.5 millions of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 100 m3/s | |
| 18/07/11 | 19/07/11 | 5 | 5 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Clear sky. Main fountain duration 4 hours. Volume 2 million of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 140 m3/s |
| 24/07/11 | 25/07/11 | 7 | 2.9 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Cloudy. Mainf fountain duration 10 hours. Volume 1 million of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysms 25 m3/s |
| 30/07/11 | 31/07/11 | 6 | 5 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Partly couldy. Ash plume blown E by the wind. Main fountain duration 10 hours. Volume 2.2 millions of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysms 60 m3/s |
| 05/08/11 | 06/08/11 | 11 | 6.4 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Clear sky. Main fountain duration 4 hours. Volume 1.6 millions of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 110 m3/s |
| 12/08/11 | 4 | 3.3 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Clear sky. Main fountain duration 3 hours. Volume 3 millions of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 280 m3/s | |
| 20/08/11 | 9 | 3.6 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Slightly cloudy. Main fountain duration 5 hours. Volume 1.4 millions of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 80 m3/s | |
| 29/08/11 | 10 | 3.2 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Slightly cloudy. Main fountain duration 4 hours. Volume 1.7 millions of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 120 m3/s | |
| 08/09/11 | 10 | 9 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Slightly cloudy. Main fountain duration 3 hours. Volume 1.2 millions of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 110 m3/s | |
| 19/09/11 | 8 | 1.3 | aura OMI | Poor weather conditions, ash clound bent by strong wind to the NE | |
| 28/09/11 | 29/09/11 | 11 | 3.1 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Cloudy. Main fountain duration 3 hours. Volume 0.4 millions of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 40 m3/s |
| 08/10/11 | 13.4 | 5 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Cloudy. Main fountain duration 7 hours. Volume 0.8 millions of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 30 m3/s | |
| 23/10/11 | 24/10/11 | 6 | 2.3 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Almost clear sky. Main fountain duration 2 hours. Volume 1.1 millions of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 150 m3/s |
| 15/11/11 | 11 | 5 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Slightly cloudy. Culminating phase duration 1 hour, ash and laiplli to the SE. Main fountain duration 4 hours. Volume 1.8 millions of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 120 m3/s. Starts at 06:00 UT with small lava flow from fissure on the SE flank of the SEC. Fountain at 11:00 UT, culminates between 11:45 and 12:20 UT | |
| 05/01/12 | 9 | 7 | aura OMI SEVIRI | Slightly cloudy. Main fountain duration 5 hours. Volume 1.5 millions of cubic metres. Mean output rate during paroxysm 80 m3/s | |
| 09/02/12 | 9 | 1 | aura OMI | Less violent than the previous but lasted more than five hours | |
| 04/03/12 | 8 | 5 | aura OMI | ||
| 18/03/12 | Tall lava fountain, several km high, ash and lapilli on the E sector. At 02:30 UT strombolian activity at SEC. Very strong peak activity between 08:00 and 09:30 UT. Lack od volume estimation due to winter conditions and snow. | ||||
| 01/04/12 | 11 | 7.4 | aura OMI | ||
| 12/04/12 | 6 | 2.7 | aura OMI | ||
| 24/04/12 | 6 | 9.1 | aura OMI | ||
| 20/01/13 | 23/01/13 | Two episondes of strombolian activity ar NSEC | |||
| 19/02/13 | 21/02/13 | Starts morning of the 19th, then 3 more paroxysms during the next 54 hours | |||
| 28/02/13 | 4 | 5 | aura OMI | ||
| 05/03/13 | 06/03/13 | ||||
| 16/03/13 | One of the most intense of the current series of paroxysms, preceeded by a long prelude of strombolian activity that started in the afternoon of 15 march | ||||
| 03/04/13 | |||||
| 12/04/13 | Lava fountain, high column, vloud directed to the SE, preceeded by ash and lapilli | ||||
| 18/04/13 | |||||
| 20/04/13 | very powerful, lava fountain 1km above the crater, cloud towards ESE, heavy ash fall | ||||
| 27/04/13 | 4 | 7 | aura OMI | ||
| 26/10/13 | 8 | 10 | aura OMI | Gas plume laden with pyroclastic material rose several km above the summit adn drifter SW, closure of the airport. Voldorad 2B radial velocity and power. Echoes in the range 3135-3585 m from the radar with radial velocities in the range of 10-20 m/s | |
| 16/11/13 | 17/11/13 | 4 | 10 | aura OMI | Voldorad 2B radial velocity and power. |
| 23/11/13 | 8 | 5 | aura OMI | Very powerful, strombolian evolves to lava fountain, column several km high, dispersion towards SE. Voldorad 2B radial velocity and power. | |
| 02/12/13 | 4 | 10 | aura OMI | Tall lava fountain, difter towards NNW (Bronte). Voldorad 2B radial velocity and power. | |
| 14/12/13 | 16/12/13 | 4 | 5 | aura OMI | Ash emission caused closure of airport on 15/12. Voldorad 2B radial velocity and power. |
| 29/12/13 | 31/12/13 | 4 | 10 | aura OMI | Voldorad 2B radial velocity and power |
| 02/01/14 | 03/01/14 | Dense ash emissions | |||
| 21/01/14 | Strombolian activity at NSEC | ||||
| 07/10/14 | 16/10/14 | Lava fountains at NSEC | |||
| 03/12/15 | 13 | 25 | aura OMI | Major lava fountain with ash dispersion 70km away in the NE direction | |
| 04/12/15 | 05/12/15 | Three more lava fountains at Voragine. Voldorad 2B signal from 14:30 to 16:20 UT on 5/12/15. Voldorad 2B radial velocity (m/s) and powed (dB) at 21:00 UT on 4/12/15 | |||
| 27/04/17 | Early hours : intensification of the strombolian activity | ||||
| 15/05/17 | 18/05/17 | Eleven episodes of strombolian activituy at SEC3 |
Références:
- Ganci et al., A year of lava fountaining at Etna: Volumes from SEVERI, GRL, 39, L06305, 2012
- Bonaccorso et al., From source to surface: dynamics of Etna’s lava fountains investigated by continuous strain, magnetic, ground and sttellite thermal data, Bull Volc, 75:690, 2013
- Voldorad data at OPGC
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