Why did Mount Etna erupt in 2002?

Answer 1

Mt Etna is located on the island of Sicily at the bottom of Italy. It keeps erupting because it is on the very edge of the African plate where it is crashing into the Eurasian plate. It is a destructive plate boundary because the African plate is going under the Eurasian plate.

Answer 2

It erupts because of the natural processes that take place.

There are two main reasons for these eruptions to occur. One is the response of the volcano and its fracture systems to variations in the volume of magma rising within the central conduit system. The other process which may lead to "lateral" erputions is a change in the structural stability of the volcano, caused by tectonic movements.

Answer 3

The African & Eurasian plates collide, forcing the heavier plate down. The closer it gets to the core it starts to melt, the melted substance flows up out of the volcano.

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Not really.... but it's a start. The Mediterranean Sea is closing at a mean rate of about 5mm/yr (by comparison, the Atlantic is spreading at 25mm/yr) as Africa is moving North slightly faster than the NW Eurasian Plate's drift north-eastwards.

The "forcing down" is called "subduction" - one plate is forced below the other; and it tends to be the closing sea-floor's crust that is subducted although one continent will try to ride up over the other, folding the sedimentary cover-rocks into mountains - such as the Alps.

The melting that feeds the resulting volcanoes is not close to the Core but in a much shallower region called the Aesthenosphere, basically the top of the Mantle that forms the planet's bulk.

And the "melted substance" is magma - becoming lava when erupted (a good deal of it stays underground, undergoing a complex series of physical and chemical reactions and eventually solidifying into a huge mass of granite or granite-related rock).

Answer 4

two tetonic plates- the Euraisian plate and the African plate rub against each other creating friction, making molten rock which then spouts out etna and kills everyone :)

Answer 5

Explosive eruptions are typical of subduction zone volcanoes with viscous magma.

Answer 6

Mount Etna is the most active volcano in Europe. Most eruptions of Etna occur at the summit.

Answer 7

Volcanoes are notoriously difficult to predict accurately. No one can say for certain or with precision when the next eruption will be.

Answer 8

It is caused by subterranean lava pressure being released. This causes all volcanic activity

Answer 9

because it did, k? thnksbye.

Answer 10

it does it its self