TheExtinctionProtcol Nov 30, 2013

November 30, 2013 – Catania, ITALY - The eastern Sicilian city of Catania’s Fontanarossa airport reopened on Friday after Mount Etna’s recent eruption halted flights there in recent days, the airport said. Following a quiet summer, Europe’s most active volcano spewed molten lava up thousands of feet high as thick ash clouds spread for miles around. Officials said no serious damage has been caused by the eruption, which caused Etna to produce rare series of perfect steam rings. A dark cloud of tiny rock fragments spread over the island leaving cars, road and beaches covered in a thick black layer earlier this month. Etna’s last major eruption was in 1992 but it has regular smaller ones. –Adnkronos

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volcanodiscovery Nov 30 2013

By: USGS

www.earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

23 earthquakes

    4.8 38km SSW of El Rosario, El Salvador 2013-11-29 11:01:57 UTC-05:00 69.6 km

    4.4 35km W of Platanos, Greece 2013-11-29 08:24:31 UTC-05:00 44.8 km

    4.5 12km WSW of Benzilan, China 2013-11-29 07:13:53 UTC-05:00 10.0 km

    5.0 South of the Fiji Islands 2013-11-29 07:05:23 UTC-05:00 33.3 km

    5.2 South of the Fiji Islands 2013-11-29 06:53:01 UTC-05:00 10.0 km

    2.9 56km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico 2013-11-29 05:51:16 UTC-05:00 48.0 km

    4.9 South of Panama 2013-11-29 04:18:53 UTC-05:00 11.3 km

    4.8 24km ENE of Jarm, Afghanistan 2013-11-29 01:25:32 UTC-05:00 57.1 km

    3.1 6km SW of Reno, Texas 2013-11-29 01:14:10 UTC-05:00 5.0 km

By: Chrissy Arthur, 11/29/2013

More storm activity in Queensland's drought-stricken west is forecast, as some graziers celebrate the first decent rain they have seen in more than a year. Patchy storm rain has fallen from the Gulf of Carpentaria down to south-west Queensland, including in towns like Eulo and Cunnamulla. There was also 61 millimetres of rain reported at Mount Pleasant near Hughenden, and 67mm on a property north of Boulia.

Murray Tramby-White manages a place north-west of Winton and says 102mm there will get the property out of trouble. "We haven't had substantial rain here for about 18 months," he said. While across the board, the rain has not been drought-breaking, graziers say it has lifted spirits.

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VolcanoDiscovery.com Nov 28 2013

Etna (Sicily, Italy): A new paroxysm has started at the New SE crater. Following weak strombolian activity during the past days, this afternoon, started to rise steeply this afternoon. At the time of this update, there are increasingly strong strombolian explosions or pulsating lava fountains at the New SE crater and an ash plume has started to rise. Bad weather inhibits good observations, but occasional views can be obtained especially from the NE side. You can follow the eruption "live" at our interactive webcam viewer.

Nishino-shima (Volcano Islands, Japan): The youngest island of the world continues to grow as the eruption continues. Recent footage shows (from 24 Nov) shows strombolian activity and a lava flow on the southeast flank of the small new cone.
The strombolian activity often ejects glowing bombs that land in the sea water and create spray and leave short-lived areas of boiling water around them. The longer the eruption continues in this so-called magmatic style (the vent being isolated from sea water, allowing the formation of welded scoria and lava flows), the greater the chances are that the island will survive wave erosion once the eruption stops.