Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Saturday 20 April 1957, page 1


Lava Stream Pours Down Mount Etna

CATANIA, Sicily. Friday (A,A.P.-Reuter) l^-A.. 150ft. wide strip. of red hot lava was yesterday creeping down the slopes of Mount Etna, the biggest. active volcano in Europe.

' Explosions every few minutes sent clouds of

steam and hot gravel hurt-1

ling from a crater, a fewi hundred feet below the Etna peak.

By midday, the lava stream had poured about 350 yards down the mountain.

Professor Salvatore Cucuzza, Vice-Director of the Etna Institute of V.uicarf-; ology, said "Although this is the biggest ei-uption in nearly seven year-s. it does not look like being a seri

ous one." !