Mount Etna erupts sending six mile ash cloud into the sky and closing airport

A recent eruption of Mount Etna despatched an enormous ash cloud into the sky on Monday (Image: Splash / Getty)

A recent eruption of Mount Etna has despatched an enormous six mile lengthy ash cloud into the sky above Catania in Sicily.

Dramatic footage confirmed the traditional port metropolis dwarfed by the a menacing cloud spewing out of the volcano, one of the vital lively on the earth.

Vincenzo Bellini, Sicily’s second largest worldwide airport, was briefly closed at lunchtime on Monday because of the eruption, with inbound flights diverted to Palermo.

The ash cloud rose 6.2 miles into the air above a crator on the south-east of the volcano, the INGV Nationwide Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology stated on Twitter.

The airport of Catania was briefly closed (Image: Getty Photos Europe)

The large cloud might be seen for miles round (Image: AP)

A ‘lava fountain’ was seen spewing from the South-East crater (Image: SplashNews)

Mount Etna is Europe’s highest and most lively volcano (Image: Reuters)

Ash coated roads, balconies and roofs of cities close by, Italy’s civil safety company stated.

INGV stated it had recorded a gradual rise in volcanic-seismic tremor – induced by escaping gases – which might be an indication that Etna is heading in the direction of one other spectacular burst of fiery lava fountaining, generally known as paroxysmal exercise.

At 3,324 metres (practically 11,000 ft), Etna is the tallest lively volcano in Europe and has erupted often previously 500,000 years.

The most recent eruption was so robust it might be seen from area with the mud cloud being picked up on satellite tv for pc pictures from the Worldwide House Station.

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