A Massive Fracture Just Opened on Mount Etna -- Scientists Are Alarmed [8:00]

YouTube ^ | November 21, 2025 | Geology Watch

[SunkenCiv]

A massive dry fracture has just opened on Mount Etna -- and scientists are now raising the alert level. This newly discovered fissure on the southeast wall is not releasing lava, but that doesn't make it safe. In fact, this type of "silent cracking" is often a sign of deep internal pressure, structural movement, or early-stage volcanic instability. 

In today's Geology Watch report, we break down the footage shared by Pio Andrea Peri and the latest update from INGV, which has now issued an F1 Alert Status -- indicating a high probability of lava fountains and increased volcanic activity at Etna’s South-East Crater. 

A Massive Fracture Just Opened on Mount Etna -- Scientists Are Alarmed | 8:00 
Geology Watch | 13K subscribers | 83,061 views | November 21, 2025

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: campiflegrei; eruption; eruptions; etna; geology; indonesia; italy; mountetna; mountsemeru; science; volcano; volcanoes

[SunkenCiv]

Double Volcanic Crisis: Today, November 22nd, 2025, two major events unfold simultaneously. In Italy, a magnitude 3.0 earthquake rocks Campi Flegrei where 500,000+ people live inside an active caldera that's risen 150cm since 2005. AI revealed 54,000 hidden earthquakes in 3 years. In Indonesia, a devastating lahar descends Mount Semeru TODAY, just 3 days after eruption, traveling 13km and engulfing Gladak Perak Bridge—the 2nd lahar in 2 days. Expert warnings from INGV and Indonesian Geological Agency highlight escalating risks on both continents. 

Earthquake Campi Flegrei 3.0 Scares Residents. Lahars Reaches Village in Semeru After 3 Days | 9:27 
Geology Info | 26.5K subscribers | 5,262 views | November 22, 2025

[SunkenCiv]

I'm smug about the fact that I don't live in proximity to a volcano.

[Seruzawa]

Damn that moon. Someone needs to do something about that.

[Billthedrill]

I caught some pretty impressive vids of the Mt. Semeru lahars on YooToob last night. It was one of those “if you see this with your own eyes you’re dead” moments. BTT

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, that’s gonna leave a mark.

[Carry_Okie]

Google Maps doesn’t show a bridge to Messina. I’m a bit surprised, as the strait is less than two miles and a bridge would definitely facilitate evacuation. They would have to design it to hold up a load of ash though. ;-)

[rhinohunter]

500,000+ people live inside an active caldera

OK … I’m no geologist … but is that really a good idea???

[9422WMR]

Sicily, Italy is where this is at….

[Carry_Okie]

Just queried the depth of that strait. It would have to be a bridge capable of spanning about a mile with its end towers set in 300’ deep waters... capable of holding a load of wet ash in an earthquake? Man, that’s a tough design problem!

I think I’d go for a sacrificial center span to be replaced.

[Carry_Okie]

Sicily, Italy is where this is at….

And? You think I didn't know that?

[SunkenCiv]

Messina, Brad! Messina! Oh, sorry.

There's been talk for a really long time about such a bridge. The parliamentary gubmint of Italy tends to fall a lot, and there's a big divide, believe it or not, on whether such a project should be undertaken.

If memory serves, Italy has actually tried to sell bonds to finance the project several times, and each time the gov't fell before very many were sold, so the money raised just went into general funds.

The current plan is for a huge-ass suspension bridge.

IMHO some Korean or Japanese (or whomever Norway uses) company that prefabs tunnel sections, sinks them, links them all together, then pumps out the water should be availed of. While the discussion about the bridge goes on, the link could have been completed years ago.

[Carry_Okie]

The maximum depth reaches over 800ft. That’s a lot of pressure for a drop-in tunnel.

[skinny old man]

Visuvius is near Napoli

[SunkenCiv]

The strait is a busy transit point, so the road would have to be well above, or go under the whole works. Either way, the seafloor would need to be thoroughly surveyed for ancient wrecks, well, and more recent ones, before any construction.

Italian court rejects Sicily bridge project
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni slams the ruling as “an act of overreach.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-courts-messina-bridge-giorgia-meloni-politics/

[SunkenCiv]

When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, you immediately sue the writer of the song for unfair characterizations of Italians.

[SunkenCiv]

Don’t be such a worry wart.

[SunkenCiv]

Saran Wrap.

[Carry_Okie]

Saran Wrap.

[SunkenCiv]

The Campi Flagrei (hope I got that spelling) is near Vesuvius, while Messina is at the NE point of Sicily. And the Indonesian one, way far away. It seemed like a good combo topic, but I may have been waaaay off.

[abb]

We visited the Naples/Pomepeii area earlier this year. It is interesting how Mt. Vesuvius prominently looms over the entire Naples Bay region. It is a big mountain.

One day, it will go boom and will be spectacular.