Every day on Earth there are over 1,000 earthquakes strong enough to register on the Richter scale. Of course, most are of little consequence, unless it happens right underneath you!
And how many volcanoes erupt every day? An average of 2 EVERY SINGLE DAY. One gets the feeling that Earth is not a very stable planet!
Sicily’s Mount Etna roared back to life for several hours, bombarding its eastern slope with missiles of hot lava.
Columns of ash disrupted air transportation around
the Italian island. Ash from the eruption forced Catania’s Fontanarossa airport to shut down overnight. The year 2010 was an unusually quiet period for Etna, which last produced a major eruption in 1992.
Etna is in an almost constant state of activity, but is not considered particularly dangerous.
Its slopes are home to farms and vineyards that make use of soil made rich by centuries of regular eruptions.
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