Voragine crater |
Voragine-Bocca Nuova border |
View down to southern craters from 2002 |
SE-crater |
SE-crater summit |
looking down from SE-crater to new crater |
fresh meter sized lava bomb |
lava bubbling-precursor of a developing Paroxysm |
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bursting bubble |
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heavily bursting bubbles with increasing emission of lava bombs |
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superwideangle overview of whole new crater |
its floor is filling up with lava |
lava shreds getting bigger... |
after 15:00h lava fountains are developing |
strong degassing with pulsating fountains, Bocca Nuova ash eruption in background |
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low ash content at the beginning of the Paroxysm
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rising ash cloud, the Paroxysm at full power |
heavy bombardement with lava bombs |
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base of lava fountain |
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highly accelerated lava shreds escaping from ash cloud |
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increasing ash content |
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final phase after 1 hour of maximum intensity |
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advancing Aa flows |
even hours after the eruption crater walls are partially collapsing |
afterglow of the huge lavaflow in dawn |
the following morning-removing of 5cm Lapilli |
virgin landscape-all trails buried under Lapili |
street to Sapienza-completely ash covered |
vegetation above Sapienza |
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Video of lava bubbling shortly before Paroxysm |
