Etna
The eruption of Etna continues with the sixteenth paroxysmal activity since last February 16. The 'live' event started after 11pm yesterday from the South-East crater with a lava fountain, lava overflows and the emission of an eruptive cloud about 6 kilometers high. The ash, blown by the wind, fell in a South-South-East direction and also on Catania causing the closure of a sector of the airspace and of the airport runway.
DAMAGE - And after a month of eruptions, the damage toll in the countryside on which ash and lapilli have poured up. "Damaged nurseries of plants and flowers, vegetables as well as citrus fruits scratched by the power of the sand - says Coldiretti after the new eruption with lava and ash from the South-East crater -. In the countryside there is a calamity with often irreparable damage to the crops to which in addition, the inconvenience for those forced to the extraordinary cleaning of the drainage channels or the cleaning of rural roads ".
"In many areas the earth has been submerged by a black blanket - he adds. To clean the structures and crops it takes time, water and the massive use of manpower. We are also facing changes in the volcano and, therefore, we must start also a new system of interventions that also protects agricultural entrepreneurs with fast and ad hoc rules ".
Etna
The eruption of Etna continues with the sixteenth paroxysmal activity since last February 16. The 'live' event started after 11pm yesterday from the South-East crater with a lava fountain, lava overflows and the emission of an eruptive cloud about 6 kilometers high. The ash, blown by the wind, fell in a South-South-East direction and also on Catania causing the closure of a sector of the airspace and of the airport runway.
DAMAGE - And after a month of eruptions, the damage toll in the countryside on which ash and lapilli have poured up. "Damaged nurseries of plants and flowers, vegetables as well as citrus fruits scratched by the power of the sand - says Coldiretti after the new eruption with lava and ash from the South-East crater -. In the countryside there is a calamity with often irreparable damage to the crops to which in addition, the inconvenience for those forced to the extraordinary cleaning of the drainage channels or the cleaning of rural roads ".
"In many areas the earth has been submerged by a black blanket - he adds. To clean the structures and crops it takes time, water and the massive use of manpower. We are also facing changes in the volcano and, therefore, we must start also a new system of interventions that also protects agricultural entrepreneurs with fast and ad hoc rules ".