Guinness World Records 2018

EARTH

LONGEST RECORD OF

VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS

The first documented eruption of Mount

Etna, on the Italian island of Sicily,

dates back to c. 1500 bce, when it was

written that the Sicani people were

made homeless following a cataclysmic

explosion. Etna – a stratovolcano with

a summit height of 3,329 m (10,921 ft)

• has erupted approximately 200 times
  since, most recently in Mar 2017.
  On 3 Dec 2015 local photographer
  Fernando Famiani captured the drama
  of an eruption from the safety of the
  nearby province of Messina. “The
  eruption lasted around 30 minutes,”
  reported Famiani, “but days followed
  of copious lava spills.” The explosion
  fired lava 1 km (3,300 ft) into the sky,
  and a few days later the resulting ash
  plume had reached a height of around
  7 km (23,000 ft).

CONTENTS

Swamps, Bogs & Mangroves........ 18
Hard Rock......................... 20
Heavy Metal....................... 22
Tectonics......................... 24
Pollution & Environment.......... 26
Wildfires.......................... 28
Fungi.............................. 30
The Deep.......................... 32
Earth Round-Up................... 34