MOUNT ETA
The Mount Eta is an active stratovolcano which is on the east coast of Italy, which is in the province of Catania, between the Messina and Catania. Mount Eta which lies above the convergent plate magin between the Eurasian Plate and African Plate. In European continent, the Mount Eta is the tallest active volcano, which is currently 10,922 ft high, but it varies with the summit eruptions. In the Italy south of Alps it is the highest mountain. The Eta covers an area of 459 sq mi which has an basal circumference of 140 km. According to the Greek Mythology, the deadly monster Typhon was trapped under this mountain by the Zeus (According to Greek mythology he is the god of sky and thunder), and the forges of Hephaestus ( was the son of Zeus and Hera, they are the king and queen of the gods), was said to be also located underneath of it. The Mount Etna which is the most active volcanoes in the world and it is almost constant state of activity. This fertile volcanic soils which supports extensive agriculture, with vineyards and orchards spread across the lower slopes of the mountain and the broad plain of Catania to the south. The Mount Eta was added to the UNESCO world Heritage Sites in the June 2013. The Sicily, which is an island off the Italian Coast, which is dominated by the Mount Etna. The Etna is active and which erupts regularly. Mount Etna is part of the Calabrian arc, or range, of volcanoes and has grown up on the rift where the African tectonic plate meets the Eurasian tectonic plate. The Mount Etna erupted so regularly that it has made its way into the Greek Legends, One legend Hephaestus and the Cyclops used it for their workshops. In another, it was the giant Typhon’s bedroom. The Greek writers pindar and Aeschylus in 475 B.C, wrote about the eruption of the mountain. It was in 396 B.C that Etna made it into the history records, that its eruption prevented the Carthaginian army from reaching Catania. In 122 B.C So much ash fell on Catania that the romas empire gave the town a tax break until it could recover. In the history.com notes there were 14 recorded eruptions from 1500 B.C. to start of the Christian era. The Mount Etna has erupted 60 times between the birth of Christ and 1669. In 1381 eruption sent lava out to the lonian sea, near Greece. An eruption between march 11 and july 15, sent out a billion cubic yard of lava. That lava eruption formed a secondary cone, Monti Rossi, reaches the ocean and destroyed the part of Catania, 10 miles away. The villagers efforts to dig a trench to divert the flow. Mount Etna which is associated with the subduction of the African plate under the Eurasian plate, that also produced Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei but this a part of different volcanic arc. There are a number of theories has proposed to explain Etna location and the eruptive history, including rifting processes, a hot spot, and intersection of structural breaks in the crust, but the scientists are still debating on the best fits their data. The eruption of Etna which follows a variety of patterns. The most of occur at the summit where there are currently five distinct craters- they are the Northeast Crater, the Voragine, Bocca Nuova and the Southeast Crater Complex, the other eruptions that occurs on the flanks, which has more than 300 vents ranging in size which are from small holes in the ground to large craters of hundreds of meters across. The eruption through Summit is highly explosive and which also are spectacular. But the eruption through the flank which can occur down to a few hundred metres altitude, which may be close to or well within the inhabited areas. During the year Ad 1600, there where occurred at least 60 flanks eruptions and also countless summit eruptions has also occurred, during the start 20th century half of these have happened and since 2000, 2001, 2002-2003, 2004-2005, and 2008-2009 there has four flank eruptions. And the Summit eruptions occurred in 2006, 2007-2008, January-April 2012, and which also occurred during the July-October 2012. In Roman the Etna is known as the Aetna, the name that thought which have derived either from the Greek word aitho or else in the earlier Phoenician word attano. Gibel Utlamat (“the mountain of fire”) the Arabs called the mountain as, and later the name was corrupted into Mons Gibel and Etna’s subsequently changed into Mongibello. Due to the mountain’s regular and often dramatic eruptions made it a major subject of interest for classical mythologists and which later into successors, which sought to explain its behaviors under the terms of various gods and also the giants of the Roman and Greek Legend. According to the Greek the king of the wind Aeolus, was said to imprisoned in the caves below Etna. And Typhon was the giant who was confined under Etna, and they cause the mountain’s eruptions this was according to the Aeschylus the poet. And Enceladus was another giant who rebelled against the gods, and who was killed and buried under the Etna. The Hephaestus, the god of fire and the forge, who was said to have his forge under the Etna and drove the fire-demon Adranus out from the mountain, and the Cyclopes maintained a smithy where they fashioned lighting bolts for the Zeus to use as a weapon. A major pre-Socratic philosopher and the Greek statesman of the 5th century BC, who is said to have met his death in the volcano’s crater, but accordance to the reality he seems to have died in Greece.
The Mount Eta is an active stratovolcano which is on the east coast of Italy, which is in the province of Catania, between the Messina and Catania. Mount Eta which lies above the convergent plate magin between the Eurasian Plate and African Plate. In European continent, the Mount Eta is the tallest active volcano, which is currently 10,922 ft high, but it varies with the summit eruptions. In the Italy south of Alps it is the highest mountain. The Eta covers an area of 459 sq mi which has an basal circumference of 140 km. According to the Greek Mythology, the deadly monster Typhon was trapped under this mountain by the Zeus (According to Greek mythology he is the god of sky and thunder), and the forges of Hephaestus ( was the son of Zeus and Hera, they are the king and queen of the gods), was said to be also located underneath of it. The Mount Etna which is the most active volcanoes in the world and it is almost constant state of activity. This fertile volcanic soils which supports extensive agriculture, with vineyards and orchards spread across the lower slopes of the mountain and the broad plain of Catania to the south. The Mount Eta was added to the UNESCO world Heritage Sites in the June 2013. The Sicily, which is an island off the Italian Coast, which is dominated by the Mount Etna. The Etna is active and which erupts regularly. Mount Etna is part of the Calabrian arc, or range, of volcanoes and has grown up on the rift where the African tectonic plate meets the Eurasian tectonic plate. The Mount Etna erupted so regularly that it has made its way into the Greek Legends, One legend Hephaestus and the Cyclops used it for their workshops. In another, it was the giant Typhon’s bedroom. The Greek writers pindar and Aeschylus in 475 B.C, wrote about the eruption of the mountain. It was in 396 B.C that Etna made it into the history records, that its eruption prevented the Carthaginian army from reaching Catania. In 122 B.C So much ash fell on Catania that the romas empire gave the town a tax break until it could recover. In the history.com notes there were 14 recorded eruptions from 1500 B.C. to start of the Christian era. The Mount Etna has erupted 60 times between the birth of Christ and 1669. In 1381 eruption sent lava out to the lonian sea, near Greece. An eruption between march 11 and july 15, sent out a billion cubic yard of lava. That lava eruption formed a secondary cone, Monti Rossi, reaches the ocean and destroyed the part of Catania, 10 miles away. The villagers efforts to dig a trench to divert the flow. Mount Etna which is associated with the subduction of the African plate under the Eurasian plate, that also produced Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei but this a part of different volcanic arc. There are a number of theories has proposed to explain Etna location and the eruptive history, including rifting processes, a hot spot, and intersection of structural breaks in the crust, but the scientists are still debating on the best fits their data. The eruption of Etna which follows a variety of patterns. The most of occur at the summit where there are currently five distinct craters- they are the Northeast Crater, the Voragine, Bocca Nuova and the Southeast Crater Complex, the other eruptions that occurs on the flanks, which has more than 300 vents ranging in size which are from small holes in the ground to large craters of hundreds of meters across. The eruption through Summit is highly explosive and which also are spectacular. But the eruption through the flank which can occur down to a few hundred metres altitude, which may be close to or well within the inhabited areas. During the year Ad 1600, there where occurred at least 60 flanks eruptions and also countless summit eruptions has also occurred, during the start 20th century half of these have happened and since 2000, 2001, 2002-2003, 2004-2005, and 2008-2009 there has four flank eruptions. And the Summit eruptions occurred in 2006, 2007-2008, January-April 2012, and which also occurred during the July-October 2012. In Roman the Etna is known as the Aetna, the name that thought which have derived either from the Greek word aitho or else in the earlier Phoenician word attano. Gibel Utlamat (“the mountain of fire”) the Arabs called the mountain as, and later the name was corrupted into Mons Gibel and Etna’s subsequently changed into Mongibello. Due to the mountain’s regular and often dramatic eruptions made it a major subject of interest for classical mythologists and which later into successors, which sought to explain its behaviors under the terms of various gods and also the giants of the Roman and Greek Legend. According to the Greek the king of the wind Aeolus, was said to imprisoned in the caves below Etna. And Typhon was the giant who was confined under Etna, and they cause the mountain’s eruptions this was according to the Aeschylus the poet. And Enceladus was another giant who rebelled against the gods, and who was killed and buried under the Etna. The Hephaestus, the god of fire and the forge, who was said to have his forge under the Etna and drove the fire-demon Adranus out from the mountain, and the Cyclopes maintained a smithy where they fashioned lighting bolts for the Zeus to use as a weapon. A major pre-Socratic philosopher and the Greek statesman of the 5th century BC, who is said to have met his death in the volcano’s crater, but accordance to the reality he seems to have died in Greece.
Mount Etna Facts
- Location : Island of sicily,Italy
- Coordinates : 37.73 degree N, 15.004 degree E
- Elevation : 10,925 ft, (3,330 m)
- Volcanic Type : Stratovolcano
- Area : 3,329 m
- Mountain range : Nebrodi
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