Mt.Etna Eruption! Large pics.

TheMuffinKing · Post by **TheMuffinKing** » 2007-09-06 01:57pm

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:

TheMuffinKing · Post by **TheMuffinKing** » 2007-09-06 01:57pm

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

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2007-09-06 02:12pm

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).

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-09-06 02:12pm

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

Very nice shots, by the by

Post by **Dalton** » 2007-09-06 04:48pm

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

salm · Post by **salm** » 2007-09-06 05:08pm

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

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2007-09-06 05:38pm

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

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-09-06 07:00pm

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

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2007-09-06 07:12pm

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.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2007-09-06 07:35pm

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.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2007-09-06 09:40pm

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

The most active volcano of Europe actually.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2007-09-06 10:30pm

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?

Paradox244 · Post by **Paradox244** » 2007-09-06 10:53pm

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?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2007-09-06 11:03pm

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.

TheMuffinKing · Post by **TheMuffinKing** » 2007-09-06 11:33pm

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.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-09-06 11:57pm

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

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-09-09 05:01pm

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.

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2007-09-09 07:14pm

Kick ass. I love the last photo.

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2007-09-09 07:20pm

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.

SCRawl · Post by **SCRawl** » 2007-09-09 08:26pm

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

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-09-09 10:08pm

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.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-09-09 10:11pm

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.

Vehrec · Post by **Vehrec** » 2007-09-10 06:39pm

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.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-09-10 07:00pm

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.