Vesuvius, a beauty, couldn’t hold it any longer. Beneath the mountain seawater poured through fissures into Mother Earth’s fiery furnaces causing a titanic cataclysm, and in late summer79 AD she began a series of eruptions lasting two days, blowing clouds … Read More
Mamma Etna
Mount Etna is a reliable girl, as far as volcanoes go. Her last dramatic eruption happened less than six months ago, but at her 11,000-foot summit, activity is nearly continuous, with frequent eruptions from her flanks, where mantle magma spews … Read More