- Title: ITALY: SICILY'S MOUNT ETNA CONTINUES TO SPEW LAVA AND BLACK BILLOWING SMOKE
- Date: 2nd November 2002
- Summary: (W8) NICOLOSI, MOUNT ETNA, SICILY, ITALY (NOVEMBER 2, 2002)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/LV SMOKE RISING FROM FISSURE AT SUNSET (2 SHOTS) 0.14 2. LV PEOPLE WALKING UP TO FISSURE WITH ETNA IN BACKGROUND 0.23 3. CU OF GROUND 0.26 4. LV MAN WALKING 0.29 5. CU OF SMOKE RISING FROM ETNA 0.33 6. SV/CU PEOPLE SITTING IN SLEEPING BAGS AND WATCHING THE ERUPTION (2 SHOTS) 0.42 7. CU (French) FRENCH VULCANOLOGIST MAURICE HUBERT SAYING: "Everytime I see this it makes me think how small humans are compared to the energy and the strenght that there is inside the earth. We are very little but I think its good this way." 1.00 8. LV/CU SMOKE AND STONES ERUPTING FROM FISSURE/PEOPLE WATCHING (7 SHOTS) 1.40 9. SUNSET 1.43 10. LV SMOKE AND STONES ERUPTING FROM ETNA 1.50 11. PAN FROM PEOPLE WATCHING TO ETNA 2.03 12. VARIOUS NIGHT TIME ERUPTIONS, RED LAVA AND SMOKE BILLOWING FROM FISSURE (4 SHOTS) 2.27 13. MCU (Italian) VULCANOLOGIST, PROFESSOR FRANCO BARBERI SAYING: "You still have one lava arm flowing and it will probably flow for some more time but overall the activity is diminishing and I really don't think there is anything to worry about." 2.47 14. VARIOUS ERUPTIONS (NIGHT SHOTS) 3.13 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: NOVEMBER 2, 2002
- Country: Italy
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- Story Text: Earth tremors continued to rock Italy and Sicily's
Mount Etna continues to spew out lava and black billowing
smoke.
Emissions of red hot lava from Europes most active
volcano have dropped slowly over the last few days since being
jolted awake by an earthquake nearly one week ago. Its
displays of energy are still impressive as the booming sound
of the volcano fills the mountain top as stones, smoke and
lava are thrown from its innards.
Now that the danger seems to have passed, the volcano has
become a tourist attraction as local people and
vulcanologists sit on the mountain side with their sleeping
bags to watch the display.
"Everytime I see this it makes me think how small humans
are compared to the energy and the strength that
there is inside the earth," said French vulcanologist Maurice
Hubert. "We are very little but I think its good this way."
Fear that one of the lava flows could reach a nearby
village have now diminished but noone really
pretends to know what the vulcano could do next.
"You still have one lava arm flowing and it will probably
flow for some more time but overall the activity
is diminishing and I really dont think there is anything to
worry about," said Italian vulcanologist Professor Franco
Barberi.
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