Earth Sciences

Re-pressurized magma at Mt. Etna, Italy, may feed eruptions for years

P. D. Gori, E. Giampiccolo, et al.

This groundbreaking study by Pasquale De Gori, Elisabetta Giampiccolo, Ornella Cocina, Stefano Branca, Carlo Doglioni, and Claudio Chiarabba reveals that fresh melts have been accumulating within Mount Etna since 2019, and the implications of this volcanic activity could last for a considerable time. With significant changes in seismic wave velocity and sequenced seismicity clusters, the findings illuminate a critical transition in the volcano's dynamics.