[Geology2] Etna's Latest Paroxysm (Images & Videos)

Awesome Etna's rain of fire: Snow-covered volcano spews blood-red molten lava into the air

By Tamara Cohen

PUBLISHED: 13 April 2012 

Belching lava and black smoke into the sky, the latest eruption of Mount Etna provides an awesome display of nature's power.

The highest active volcano in Europe has blown its top three times in the past month alone, depositing a surface of black ash on its snowy higher slopes.

Yet the four spectators pictured here seem happy to risk their lives to gain the closest of views. And so far the eruption has not resulted in any fatalities.

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Eruption: Thick black smoke, lava and ash rise from Mount Etna during the latest eruption from the volcano in Sicily

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