Mount Etna
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Context
- Europe’s most active volcano Mount Etna erupted May 21, 2023, forcing flights from eastern Sicily’s largest city Catania to be grounded due to a lack of visibility.
About
- Mount Etna, is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina and Catania.
- It lies above the convergent plate margin between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
- It is one of the tallest active volcanoes in Europe.
- Etna has also produced pyroclastic flows, ashfalls, and mudflows, but the lava flows are the most immediately hazardous type of activity, especially to the city of Catania.
- The volcano has been erupting for the past 500,000 years and is one of the most studied volcanos in the world.
TYPES OF VOLCANOES: https://www.iasgyan.in/blogs/types-of-volcano
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PRELIMS PRACTICE QUESTION Q. Match the following: 1. Mount Etna a. Phillippines 2. Eyjafjallajökull b. Equador 3. Mount Mayon c. Italy 4. Cotopaxi d. Iceland A. 1-a, 2-d, 3-c, 4-a B. 1-c, 2-a, 3-d, 4-b C. 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b D. 1-c, 2-a, 3-b, 4-d Answer: C |
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/world/italy-s-mount-etna-volcano-erupts-spews-ash-smoke-89492
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