Space Shuttle photograph of Mt. Etna.

Explosive column from the november eruptive phase. Copyright 2002, by Ben Kennedy.

Close up view of the effusive vent taken on June 4, 1998. Copyrighted photo by Boris Behncke.

June 4 eruption of the southwestern vent of Voragine. Copyrighted photo by Boris Behncke.
Eruptive activity at the intracrater cone on August 5, 1997. Lights of the urban center on the Eastern flank of Etna can be seen to the right. Copyrighted photo by Boris Behncke.

July 11, 1997

Intense Strombolian activity at SE Crater on July 11, 1997. Copyrighted photo by Boris Behncke.

Mt. Etna, April 29, 1993. Photograph copyrighted by Steve O'Meara.

Etna has the longest history of documented eruptions of any volcano. The first reported eruption was in 1,500 BC.

Mt. Etna, May 31, 1983. Photograph by Jack Lockwood, U.S. Geological Survey.

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Mauro Coltelli and Massimo Pompilio, Istituto Internazionale di Vulcanologia-Catania (Italy), email communication posted on Volcano ListServ

Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, 1995, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., v. 20, no. 8, p. 2.

McClelland, L., Simkin, T., Summers, M., Nielson, E., Stein, T.C., 1989, Global volcanism 1975-1985: Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, 655 p.

Simkin, T., and Siebert, L., 1994, Volcanoes of the world: Geoscience Press, Tucson, Arizona, 349 p.