New Delhi, June 2 -- Mount Etna, the active volcano atop the Italian island of Sicily has yet again started flaring up, with visuals of hot ash and lava cropping up on social media and latest news reports. Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology, which runs studies and updates on volcanic activities in the region, noted that the recent flaring was majorly "explosions of increasing intensity".

Infrared images from local media platforms, along with a critical study by INGVvulcani, claim that the occurrence was majorly by "a pyroclastic flow probably produced by the collapse of material from the northern side of the Southeast Crater." The post by the platform also translates to, "From preliminary observations, the hot pyroc...