Catania, traffic ban for motorcycles after the new eruption of Etna. The airport closed (and then reopened).

The new intense paroxysmal phenomenon of Etna is characterized by an explosive column 9.5 kilometers high and the result of volcanic ash fall, also caused the closure of Catania airportwhich reopened at 6 p.m. Many planes were sent to Palermo.

At first there was a reduction in flights to 5 per hour, after the gradual increase in ash fall on Catania and on the runway of Vincenzo Bellini international airport, flights were suspended. Phone calls reach several hotels delayed arrival.

Mayor of Catania, Enrico Trantinoordered by a temporary ban on circulation for two-wheelers and a speed limit of 30 kilometers for other vehicles. Several Etna cities are dealing with volcanic ash. Some mayors are calling for a state of disaster because there is a lack of money to clean streets and public buildings.

The mayors of Etna have already alerted the regional and national governments that due to the recurrence of paroxysmal phenomena, Etna’s crisis is now chronic. Volcanic ash disrupts all transport sectors and also damages agriculture. The series of paroxysmal eruptions in the center of the Voragine crater, which began in mid-June and reached its peak in July with the formation of Etna’s highest peak ever, continues .

As the volcanologist Salvo Caffo predicted, it is a series of phenomena that can be repeated with the same pattern and with a certain intensity for whole periods. The scientist and volcanologist Marco Viccaro explains that the special intensity similar to the central crater Voragine is connected to the main source and the main source of power of the volcano. And the magma is coming from the depths, producing internal and external transformations on Europe’s largest active volcano. This is a “magma regeneration”.

Everything is continuously monitored in real time and with sophisticated technological tools by the INGV -Etneo Observatory-. Volcanic tremors have been increasing in the last week.