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A river of lava crept toward a tourist refuge on the slopes of Mt. Etna after three earthquakes–two of them five minutes apart–rocked the region Sunday and sent residents fleeing.
“The walls shook for what seemed like an infinitely long time,” Enrico Pappalardo, mayor of the mountainside town of Santa Venerina, told the Italian news agency ANSA.
No one was injured and no buildings were damaged in the quakes on the eastern Sicilian volcano.
The first two quakes registered magnitude 2.7 and 3.7, said the National Institute of Geophysics. Four hours later, the mountain shook from a 3.0-magnitude quake, the institute said.
