Word: etna
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There is hope, though, that forecasts will improve. In Nature, geophysicist Hazel Rymer and colleagues at England's Open University reported a possible sign of an impending eruption: shifts in gravity. They found that the gravitational field around Italy's Mount Etna increased sharply six months before it spewed forth in December...
Forced out by a river of fire, a homeowner left behind wine and glasses as an offering to Mount Etna. And the lava flow, which since December had rolled over earthen barriers and destroyed two farmhouses, came to a near halt last week just short of Zafferana Etnea (pop. 7,000). Was it natural processes -- or were the volcano gods pleased by the wine...