Etna Awakens on its Side.jpg

Generated illustration of a volcanoes scene: a volcanic cone above a lava field; no photograph from the records. — Site illustration for the volcanoes habitat category.

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Habitat category volcanoes · Commons page id 99,723,610

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File title: Etna Awakens on its Side.jpg
Artist: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Text by Kasha Patel
Credit: not available
Description: For the first time in perhaps a decade, Mount Etna experienced a “flank eruption”—erupting from its side instead of its summit—on December 24, 2018. The activity was accompanied by 130 earthquakes occurring over three hours that morning. Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, has seen periodic activity on this part of the mountain since 2013. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite acquired the top image of Mount Etna on December 28, 2018. The second image highlights the active vent and thermal infrared signature from lava flows, which can be seen near the newly formed fissure on the southeastern side of the volcano. The image was created with data from OLI (bands 4-3-2) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) on Landsat 8. Ash spewing from the fissure cloaked adjacent villages and delayed aircraft from landing at the nearby Catania airport. Earthquakes occurred in the subsequent days after the initial eruption and displaced hundreds of people from their homes, according to news reports.
Capture date: 2018-12-28
Date as the record states it: 2018-12-28
Width: 6,049 px
Height: 9,259 px
Megapixels: 56.0
Licence: Public domain
Licence URL: not available
Habitat: volcanoes
Collection: Featured pictures of volcanoes
Commons file page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Etna_Awakens_on_its_Side.jpg
File URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Etna_Awakens_on_its_Side.jpg

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