{"id":1070204,"date":"2026-07-05T15:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1070204\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:40:16","slug":"mount-etna-live-eruption-sparks-panic-in-sicily-as-catania-airport-cancels-flights-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1070204\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Etna LIVE: Eruption sparks panic in Sicily as Catania Airport cancels flights | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Etna in Sicily has erupted as smoke fills the sky above the Italian island.<\/p>\n<p>Catania Airport has also had to suspend flights due to safety fears.<\/p>\n<p>Ash reportedly started rising from Etna ar around 7:45am this morning and intensified just before 9am.<\/p>\n<p>La Sicilia reports: &#8220;From 7:45 a.m., ash emissions began from the vent on the upper eastern flank of the Voragine crater, intensifying around 8:45 a.m. until generating an eruptive cloud about 1.5 kilometers high above the volcano&#8217;s summit. For safety reasons, incoming flights to Catania-Fontanarossa airport have been suspended, while Ingv models indicate that the ash cloud will move toward the southern and south-southeast sectors in the coming hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE UPDATES TO FOLLOW BELOW&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mount Etna in Sicily has erupted as smoke fills the sky above the Italian island. Catania Airport has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1070205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[2199,64840,12,31972,26],"class_list":["post-1070204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-italy","tag-mount-etna","tag-news","tag-volcanoes","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116868129008936358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1070205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}