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Sicily’s Mt. Etna put on a fiery show Monday, sending a cloud of smoke and ash several miles into the air, but officials said the activity posed no danger to the population.

An Eruption at Mount Etna Sends Hikers Scrambling for Cover Videos circulating on social media showed visitors rushing to descend the mountain as volcanic plumes rose overhead.

Mount Etna's eruption, captured by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, revealed massive plumes of ash and smoke, as lava streaked down the side of the volcano.

Mount Etna produced a spectacularly explosive eruption Monday, sending a ripple of reddish clouds down from the southeast summit of Europe's highest active volcano.

One volcanologist said Mount Etna was spewing "unprecedented quantities" of the volcanic vortex rings – potentially because of "so much bad news" happening lately.

A massive volcanic eruption occurred at Mount Etna on the Italian island of Sicily on Monday, shooting massive ash plumes into the air.

Two people were taken to the hospital for evaluation after a vehicle was found in a creek in Etna on Sunday.

Video shows Sicily's Mount Etna put on a fiery show, sending a cloud of smoke and ash miles into the air.