Posted on 10/11/2022 7:52:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
This Sentinel-2 image has been processed in true color, using the shortwave infrared channel to highlight the new flow of lava. The northernmost island of the Aeolian archipelago, located just off the northern tip of Sicily, Stromboli’s volcano has been erupting almost continuously for the past 90 years. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2022), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Early on Sunday morning, a volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli erupted, releasing huge plumes of smoke and a lava flow pouring into the sea. Less than five hours after the eruption, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this satellite image of the aftermath.
The eruption caused the partial collapse of the crater terrace. This was followed by major flows of lava stretching to the sea and immense plumes of smoke rising several hundred meters above the volcano. Italian civil protection authorities raised the alert from yellow to orange as the ‘situation of enhanced volcano imbalance persists.’
This Sentinel-2 image (above) has been processed in true color, using the shortwave infrared channel to highlight the new flow of lava. Sentinel-2 is based on a constellation of two identical satellites, each carrying an innovative wide swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for monitoring changes in Earth’s land and vegetation.
Stromboli is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily. It contains Mount Stromboli, one of the four active volcanoes in Italy.
The northernmost island of the Aeolian archipelago, located just off the northern tip of Sicily, Stromboli’s volcano has been erupting almost continuously for the past 90 years.
Hahahaha I love these threads!
Had the opportunity to cruise past Stromboli many years ago.
I’ve been back to Sicily a couple of times...took the family on the last trip. Flying into Catania from Rome, the British Air pilot did a leisurely sightseeing spin along Mt. Etna. There was a thick smoke plume. We were all over the island for the 10 days we were there, but never too far out of sight of Etna. We left and, in a few days, it blew. Took out a number of buildings near the top. The hotel and other tourist-traps at the top had already been taken out years before. The newly destroyed buildings were lower down the slope.
Don’t worry...you will. /s
Leave the gun, take the Stromboli.
Tell that to the cluster of buildings who weren’t in the way ... this time.
Wrong day. It’s National Sausage Pizza Day today.
And a side of Kraken!........................
I think Italy just blew their global warming gas emissions reduction goals.
Going to have to reduce their cattle herds and farm lands to make up for it....
I often erupt after eating a Stromboli.
And Meloni has only been on the job, what, two weeks?
I believe that the Stromboli, rather than the cheesesteak, ought to be the food that Philadelphia teaches the rest of America how to make properly.
If elected to the US Senate, I promise to make this a reality.
No, it could not be said, unless you want a contract put out on you. :)
On the other hand, if you add chopped hot dogs, you’d have a Frank Calzone.
I think Etna on the east coast of Sicily is also rumbling ...
Gelato from Sicily is yummy too
I am so sick of volcanos.
In before the obligatory tsunami warning
Raining down pepperoni for days...
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