July 25, 2001. The 2500m vent near the Montagnola summit (300m away from the mountain station of the...
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Heavy ash clouds are blasted out of the new vent at 2500 m elevation, near the upper cable car stati...
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25 July 2001. The new crater at 2500m continues to grow fast, almost visibly. In short succession it...
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Lava fountains from the 2500 m vent. MOntagnola in the background. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Occasionally, fascinating giant magma bubbles up to 50m diameter explode within the crater, thus ind...
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Exploding lava bubble. A loud detonation and a strong shock wave, that felt like a punch into the st...
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In anticipation of the expected lava flows, bulldozers are trying to build dikes to protect the lowe...
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Lava fountain from the 2500 m vent. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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The activity at the 2500 m vent reaches a peak in violence on July 24. A pulsating, ash-rich lava fo...
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A magnificient moment of the lava fountain. This photo was also featured in National Geographic's ar...
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The lava fountain is relatively "cold" and much of the erupted magma is fragmented into dark ash. It...
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Pulsating lava fountain producing an ash cloud rising several kilometers. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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The lower part of the lava fountain at night. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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The lava fountain at night is too bright to be allow very long exposures... (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Night-time lava fountain. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Twilight lava fountain. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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The lava flow from the 2100 m vent (middle left) 4 km short of Nicolosi village. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffe...
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The 'a'a lava flow front, is still moving,- very slowly. Blocks are tumbling from its top, setting f...
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Whenever blocks detach from the lava flow front, the hot, glowing interior of the flow is exposed br...
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Exploding lava bubble from the 2500 m vent. Compared to the ash-rich lava fountains the previous day...
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While many lava bombs are still flying (some into my direction), the heaviest ones have landed on th...
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Lava bubble and fountains from the new crater. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Clots of lava (spatter) thrown out of the crater by bursting lava bubbles. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Bright red lava fountain during daylight. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Clots of lava from an exploding bubble. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Twilight over the new crater with a bright explosion. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Bright lava fountain in the evening twilight. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Exploding lava bubble on Etna's Cono del Lago crater, born in 2001. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Red and blue, and all senses involved while one was there. While the liquid fragments of one explosi...
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Exploding lava bubble in the blue. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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The 2900 m vents in front of SE crater. The red light in the foreground comes from the erupting horn...
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25 July. A small cone, about 10 meters tall, has been built above the 2700 vent area. Red light from...
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Night time explosion 500+ m high. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Night-time explosion from the 2500 m vent. Some blocks fly almost 1 km high. Lights of Catania in th...
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July 27. Will the dam hold and contain the lava flow to the other side? Spectators, mostly journalis...
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Landscaping on an active volcano: both bulldozers and lava flows transform the surface... (Photo: To...
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The lava flow and the bulldozer. Who's going to win? (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Spectators on the dam. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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The parking lot is given up and it's tried to make at least a little, symbolic dam to show activity;...
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Police watches the approaching lava flow. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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The lava flow crosses the road, covering the parking lot, while bulldozers reinforce the dam shieldi...
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Thanks to its perfect setting and timing - mid July - the eruption receives lots of media coverage. ...
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The lava flow at La Spaienza at night. Fortunately, the main buildings are spared (this time). (Phot...
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The lava flow from the 2500 m vent, reaching La Spienza and lava flow from the lower vent at 2100 m ...
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The lava flow has destroyed the cable car. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Media, lava watchers and a bulldozer at work against the menacing lava flow. Lights of Catania in th...
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Photographer in front of the lava flow from the 2100 m vent. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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The vent at 2100 m elevation and the lava flow that made it to within 4 km of Nicolosi village. (c)
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Spattering and emission of a lava flow from the vent at 2100 m elevation, where a row of small cinde...
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(Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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28 July. The new crater at 2500 m elevation has grown into a cone 80 m tall. A lateral explosion bla...
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Ash cloud after a lateral blast from the 2500 m cone. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Loud, detonating explosion from the new cone. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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A lonely photographer observing the scene. (c)
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Powerful eruption from both vents on the cone. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Bright explosion in the evening. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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The erupting crater at 2500 m elevation, the light ash plume drifting towards Catania in the backgro...
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Erupting hornito and a small lava flow. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Powerful strombolian activity from the vents at 2700 m elevation and Catania's lights in the backgro...
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Lava fountains from the 2500 m crater and lava flows, with the city lights of Catania in the backgro...
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Lava-spitting hornitos (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Eruption from the new crater and silhouette of an old cable car. (c)
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Erupting hornitos at night. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Strombolian eruption from the 2900 m vent near SE crater. (c)
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Spattering from a hornito at the 2900 m vent. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Erupting hornitos at night. (c)
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A perfect lava bubble, about 40 m across explodes inside the new crater. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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The spherical ejections from the bubble burst just a fraction of a second ago. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Few seconds after the bubble burst, many fragments have landed on the side of the cone, others are s...
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