LIVE – Updated at 08:27. Mount Etna’s craters continue to smoulder two days after its largest eruption in four years sent tourists fleeing from a vast column of gas and ash on Monday.

The Toutle River in Mount St. Helen’s Monument, April 22, 2005, 25 years after the eruption. An aerial view of Mount St. Helens erupting, May 18, 1980. Nicholas George/The Chronicle/AP Photo.

Mount Etna's eruption, captured by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, ... with this eruption being the 14th episode since March 2025 after a 19-day lull.

People take pictures of the smoke rising over the city of Taormina during an eruption of the Mount Etna, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, near Catania, Dec. 4, 2015.