ROME - THE eruptions that have shaken the Mount Etna volcano on the southern Italian island of Etna have subsided, experts said Sunday at the Palermo Geophysics and Volcanology Institute.
The eruptions, which started Saturday afternoon, died away towards 9.30pm (3am Sunday, Singapore time) the same evening.
'Seismic activity has returned to normal,' a technician told AFP.
The eruption, accompanied by streams of lava, had started between 3 and 4pm local time on the volcano's southeast crater.
The last eruption of Mount Etna, on the island of Sicily, was in November last year, two months after another eruption forced a temporary closure of nearby Catania airport due to flying lava and clouds of ash.
The last truly spectacular eruption was in the summer of 2001. -- AFP
