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Article: The Mountain Is Rumbling.(Mount Etna)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek International
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- May 14, 2001
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Each spring, residents of Catania walk the Sicilian's town's narrow streets chanting prayers and touting relics of Saint Agatha, their patron saint and protectress against an eruption of Mount Etna. All the while, the mountain looms overhead, belching smoke, ash and lava. Although villagers have gotten used to these displays of defiance, this year they have reason to pray with more than the usual fervor. In the past few weeks, seismologists have logged hundreds of earthquakes near the mountain's summit. Each quake is far too weak to mean much to the hundreds of villages on Etna's slopes and foothills. But taken together, they suggest that Europe's most active volcano is ...
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