
Voragine crater
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Voragine-Bocca Nuova border
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View down to southern craters from 2002
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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
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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
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even hours after the eruption crater walls are partially collapsing |

afterglow of the huge lavaflow in dawn
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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 |