The latest eruption of the Etna volcano, located on the Italian island of Sicily (south) and considered the most active in Europe, has ended, the National Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) reported, which may allow the reopening of Catania airport this year has made. Monday.

Mount Etna erupted last Thursday and intensified over the weekend, when it spewed an ash plume over the city at its base, Catania, causing traffic at the airport to be halted for several hours for security reasons.

The INGV confirmed that volcanic activity stabilized at “average values” around noon on Sunday and after several hours of stability, the airport was able to reopen on Monday.

“The variations in inclination and deformation have stopped and the signals are stable and no significant variations are observed,” the experts explained, although they confirmed that “a lava flow that is sprouting” is still being detected from the southeastern crater.

Etna records frequent eruptions that usually cover the Sicilian towns around it with ash.

The latter could only be tracked with technology, since the crater of the volcano, at about 3,300 meters, is still covered with clouds due to the storm currently ravaging the island of Sicily, and direct observation of it is impossible.

“At the moment it is not possible to determine the position of the most advanced lava front due to the variability of the cloud cover,” the INGV said of an eruption whose roar was heard in the towns of Adrano and Biancavilla, on the southwest slope.