Explosion from the vent of a small intracrater cone at the Southeast Crater on 25 July 1997.
This crater, one of the four summit craters of Etna, has changed beyond recognition since then.
The point from which the photo was taken now lies buried under about 100 m of lava
and pyroclastics erupted from the Southeast Crater in 1998-2001

Photo galleries of Mount Etna

Many of you may have noted, with some dissatisfaction, that this site does contain quite a lot of information, but may of the photographs are not of extremely high quality, especially when it comes to sans from slides. Nonwithstanding the limited resources available in my office at the Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, University of Catania, I preferred to post low-quality images rather than none. However, in 2001 the computer did no longer recognize the attached scanner, and has not done so ever since. This is why no photos of my own have appeared on this site for the past two years, which you might have dearly wished to see especially during the 2001 and 2002-2003 eruptions of Mount Etna.

With the help of an excellent new scanner, I am now able to re-scan all of the slides contained in my vast collection of Etna photographs taken since I first visited the volcano in September 1989. This work has already begun but will take quite some time due to the sheer quantities of images which are worth being scanned and posted on this site. I am willing to share the work in progress and thus about once a week you will find new links to new galleries, which will be organized chronologically but later they will also be linked in a thematic manner, corresponding to the various sections of this site. As of 20 June 2003, I have scanned through the years from 1989 to mid-1997, but so far only the 1989 and 1990 photos are on-line. Stay tuned, this time it's happening!

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