Mount Etna, Europe's tallest and most active volcano, is under constant surveillance with a cutting-edge network of sensors ...

Ash plumes shot up into the sky as high as 4.5 kilometres, Italy's National ... for another volcano north of Sicily, Stromboli -- on the island of the same name -- whose eruption created ash ...

Tension is building in Sicily, and it’s not the ... Silvestri Crater comprises two volcanic cones that were formed during the 1892 eruption, and while the upper crater promises views of the ...

Underwater archaeologists found 40 rare jars from 1,900 years ago on the seafloor after anglers located a shipwreck off Sicily. Photo from Sicily’s Superintendence of the Sea A pair of keen-eyed ...

Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP Italy's famous Pompeii archaeological park said it ... Two more victims of the volcanic eruption were uncovered in August. A small treasure of gold, silver and bronze ...

deadly quakes or a full eruption. Vesuvius isn’t the volcano they’re worried about. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reported from Pozzuoli, Italy A piercing alarm burst from millions of cellphones ...

They can have violent eruptions and can grow bigger as layers of thick lava and ash harden on top of each other. Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, is an example of a composite volcano. Shield volcanoes ...