On the 13th May 2008,Mt.Etna rumbled back to life again. Located in Sicily, Italy,the volcano started to erupt again. The massive eruption was measured up to 3.9 on the Richter scale.
Most of the world's volcanoes are formed on constructive and destructive plate boundaries but Mt. Etna is formed on a unique boundary between the European and Africa plate. The two plates were pushing towards each other due to the convection currents beneath the Earth's crust. The likely crustal plate movements is because of converging plates.
The build-up pressure caused by gases below the Earth's surface results in the volcanic eruption. the Eruption At that time had cause 2 fissure opening and these had sent larva flows 5 km into the Valle del Bove. So far, there was no magnitude in that eruption. But during it's 2009 eruption, there was a magnitude 4.4 earthquake. there are not much effects that could be found and therefore the government did not do much. The only thing that it harmed was the environment as the smoke produced and the heat that came out of the volcano contributed to global warming. Volcanic ashes also caused air pollution. The thing that i thought could minimize the impact/damage from such events in to encourage people not to live near the volcano as this volcano is quite active and people may be killed if they live near it. If they want to collect the volcanic ash(which is very fertile), They can collect it at least one month after an eruption and bring it back to their hometown to grow crops.
Special Thanks:
http://www.angelfire.com/va3/etna_analysis/Formation.htm
http://www.volcanolive.com/etna.html
http://journals.worldnomads.com
http://touritaly.org
http://pubs.usgs.gov
http://http://www.terradaily.com/reports /Etna_volcano_rumbles_back_to_life_in_Sicily_999.html
http://en.wikipedia.org
