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These are pics taken from around my housing area around Mt.Etna. The mountain erupted with a spray of lava over 1300ft tall. Several villages were covered in ash, but I live pretty far away, so no problem for me.

If anyone's concerned, nobody was hurt, and no property destroyed as the lava flowed into an uninhabited valley. Here's the pics, they were taken at night and I'm no pro photographer.

Pics:

Ghetto edit: The bottom two were taken by my wife's co-workers.

Sorry to tell you this, but the bottom two are NICE . (The second is well taken, and the third looks like something out of LOTR).

Betcha regret thinking buying that house was a brilliant deal now, eh?

Very nice shots, by the by

Lightning plus lava flow? Double bonus points. Looks like a great place for an evil lair.

Awesome. I wish i had an active volcano in my back yard, too.

Geez, especially with the last one I started automatically looking for the Eye of Sauron before I knew it.

Isn't Mt. Etna one of the most active volcanoes in Italy?

Wow that's cool!. Is that a recent eruption?
*check intarwebs*
Oh, I hadn't heard anything about that...


I hope Jake99 had time to relocate anyone who lived at the bottom of the volcano.

Dalton wrote:Lightning plus lava flow? Double bonus points. Looks like a great place for an evil lair.

Lightning tends to occur during many volcanic eruptions.

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Isn't Mt. Etna one of the most active volcanoes in Italy?

The most active volcano of Europe actually.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:

Dalton wrote:Lightning plus lava flow? Double bonus points. Looks like a great place for an evil lair.

Lightning tends to occur during many volcanic eruptions.

I wasn't aware of that...thought it was a stupid hollywood thing. Why does lightning occur with eruptions? Is it like....the dust is moving fast, creating alot of static in the air that discharges? Like rubbing a trillion tiny balloons together?

salm wrote:

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Isn't Mt. Etna one of the most active volcanoes in Italy?

The most active volcano of Europe actually.

Doesn't it erupt every two years or so?

Chardok wrote:

DPDarkPrimus wrote:

Dalton wrote:Lightning plus lava flow? Double bonus points. Looks like a great place for an evil lair.

Lightning tends to occur during many volcanic eruptions.

I wasn't aware of that...thought it was a stupid hollywood thing. Why does lightning occur with eruptions? Is it like....the dust is moving fast, creating alot of static in the air that discharges? Like rubbing a trillion tiny balloons together?

That's the popular theory, but it's actually something of a mystery.

Dooey Jo wrote:Wow that's cool!. Is that a recent eruption?
*check intarwebs*
Oh, I hadn't heard anything about that...

Etna erupted this past Tuesday in the late afternoon.

Possibly with the amount of molten metal and other particles spewed into the air, it might actually set up a potential difference...

Oh man that's so sweet! I was walking on that volcano in early April 2006 too. I remember the tour guide kept telling us it could "erupt at any time!"

I thought she was just trying to scare us. Another thing she mentioned is that that type of volcano doesn't always erupt from the top, it can blow from any point, really. We saw old mouths way down the slope, that was frightening.

Muffin King, are those the full size pics? Or do you have larger ones? I'd love to see them.

Kick ass. I love the last photo.

Chardok wrote: I wasn't aware of that...thought it was a stupid hollywood thing. Why does lightning occur with eruptions? Is it like....the dust is moving fast, creating alot of static in the air that discharges? Like rubbing a trillion tiny balloons together?

Probably because it's more sinister that way.

Real life has an odd way of being cinematic at times.

That "lightning" effect looks more like the backlit edge of a cloud. Isn't that possible?

Paradox244 wrote:

salm wrote:

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Isn't Mt. Etna one of the most active volcanoes in Italy?

The most active volcano of Europe actually.

Doesn't it erupt every two years or so?

Frequent eruption reduces pressure buildup. Volcanoes that rumble but only erupt once every few hundred years (or longer) are rather more frightening, I should think.

Darth Wong wrote:

Paradox244 wrote:

salm wrote: The most active volcano of Europe actually.

Doesn't it erupt every two years or so?

Frequent eruption reduces pressure buildup. Volcanoes that rumble but only erupt once every few hundred years (or longer) are rather more frightening, I should think.

Like that big bitch Ranier which scares the bejesus out of me every time I see it.

BTW, awesome pictures.

Flagg wrote:

Darth Wong wrote:

Paradox244 wrote: Doesn't it erupt every two years or so?

Frequent eruption reduces pressure buildup. Volcanoes that rumble but only erupt once every few hundred years (or longer) are rather more frightening, I should think.

Like that big bitch Ranier which scares the bejesus out of me every time I see it.

BTW, awesome pictures.

They say that sucker is gonna take half of Seattle if he goes all out. And Vesuvius might kill most of the population of Naples with another Plinian eruption.

I never noticed how many places I've been to that have a doomsday volcano nearby.

The worst Edmonton gets is a tornado once in a while.