KC is an old college scholar and brother, who has helped me in unique ways. Likes to travel and mostly play hard and live on the edge.
His most recent dispatch has to be shared. Stromboli is one of the seven islands that form the Aeolian Islands archipelago. It is renowned for its persistent open duct eruptive activity, which makes it one of the most active volcanoes globally. This type of activity is called "Strombolian." Every 10-20 minutes, in fact, there are explosions of moderate energy, with the launch of shreds of incandescent lava, lapilli, and ash up to a few hundred meters high. These explosions come from multiple openings, aligned in a northeast-southwest direction, situated inside a crater terrace at an altitude of around 700 meters in the upper part of the Sciara del Fuoco, one of the volcano's slopes.
This type of activity is called "Strombolian." Every 10-20 minutes, in fact, there are explosions of moderate energy, with the launch of shreds of incandescent lava, lapilli, and ash up to a few hundred meters high.
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