Dear Sam, yes it was.a bit longer, close to 4 km. The longest we've had among all recent documented (since 1986) PDCs at Etna.

Uhhhhh ... no. This has been assembled from various video (including some of my footage) but also some AI, and supposedly the spoken text is from an automatic voice (it sounds exactly like the voice in the Italian Google Maps navigator). No one is currently concerned about a major flank collapse 🤦‍♂️

Photo shows the view from the highest peak of Salina (and of all of the Aeolian Islands, 962 m), Monte Fossa delle Felci (Mountain of the Crater of Ferns) toward Monte dei Porri (Mountain of Leeks, 860 m) with the islands of Filicudi and Alicudi in the distance.

Yes, but it's rather modest explosive activity for Etna standards

I forgot to add that you hear some wind and sporadic explosions from the nearby Southeast Crater, which is the main focus of this eruption ☺️

ERROR CORRIGE: the lava flow goes to the SOUTHWEST (too much used writing about the Southeast Crater) ... 😔

In reality, the Northeast Crater is to the northeast of the Voragine crater, which lies immediately to the north of the Bocca Nuova 😀

Strombolian activity consists of discrete explosions that launch fragments of incandescent lava a few tens of meters, rarely up to 200 m above the vents, and generally last only a few seconds each.

The lava flow is on the southwest side (near the February 2025 lava flow) and is issuing from a fissure at the southern base of the summit craters. The Southeast Crater is ALSO in activity, producing small Strombolian explosions.

There is also a lava flow at Krashenninikov, and so there is no doubt that magma is involved

It was very much on the same scale as the collapse events and pyroclastic flows of 11 February 2014 and 10 February 2022, with a volume of around 1 million cubic meters or slightly less of rock removed from the cone

I guess that's satire 😄