Mount Etna

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Context

• Europe’s most active volcano Mount Etna erupted May 21, 2023, forcing flights from eastern Sicily’s largest city Catania to be grounded due to a lack of visibility.

About

• Mount Etna, is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina and Catania.
• It lies above the convergent plate margin between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
• It is one of the tallest active volcanoes in Europe.
• Etna has also produced pyroclastic flows, ashfalls, and mudflows, but the lava flows are the most immediately hazardous type of activity, especially to the city of Catania.
• The volcano has been erupting for the past 500,000 years and is one of the most studied volcanos in the world.

TYPES OF VOLCANOES: https://www.iasgyan.in/blogs/types-of-volcano

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/world/italy-s-mount-etna-volcano-erupts-spews-ash-smoke-89492