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Published online 30 August 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010830-10
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Etna in identity crisis
Sicily's volcano could be getting more violent.
As if Sicily's Mount Etna hasn't been enough of a nuisance this summer, it now emerges that the volcano has been going through something of an identity crisis that could make it more prone to acts of random violence.
Over the past hundred thousand years or so - a geological heartbeat - Etna may have gone from placidly dribbling fluid magma to violently ejecting clumps of lava.
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