{"id":676055,"date":"2026-07-06T03:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676055\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T03:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:55:12","slug":"mount-etna-erupts-live-as-red-alert-issued-after-volcano-blasts-ash-into-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676055\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Etna erupts live as red alert issued after volcano blasts ash into the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Etna stands around 11,050ft above sea level and is about 22 miles in diameter, although volcanic activity has altered the mountain&#8217;s height over time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Occasionally, Catania Airport, the largest airport in eastern Sicily, has to close for hours or even days when volcanic ash makes flying in the area dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">With Etna\u2019s lava flows largely contained to its uninhabited slopes, life continues in towns and villages elsewhere on the mountain. The volcano also supports fertile farmland and attracts tourists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The volcano has inspired ancient Greek legends. An eruption in 396 BC is said to have kept the Carthaginian army at bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In 1669, during what is considered the volcano&#8217;s worst known eruption, lava buried parts of Catania, about 15 miles away, and devastated dozens of villages. Another eruption, in 1928, cut off a rail route circling the mountain\u2019s base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Etna stands around 11,050ft above sea level and is about 22 miles in diameter, although volcanic activity has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[390,49,479,50,51,47,52,48,148656],"class_list":["post-676055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-headlines","tag-italy","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-volcanoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}