Smoke rings, composed of a mixture of smoke, steam and other gases expelled at high speed, above the Etna on August 09, 2023 in Catania, Italy. The smoke rings, a rare and fascinating sight in recent days, are emitted from a single vent located in one of its most active craters. Etna's volcanic activity seen during a training session of the SAGF, the mountain rescue team of the Italian Guardia di Finanza, from Nicolosi, which operates on the highest active volcano on the Eurasian plate. (Photo by Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images)





The Mount Merapi volcano spews hot lava and smoke, as seen from Turi in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on August 9, 2023. (Photo by Hendra Nurdiyansyah/Antara Foto via Reuters)





Lava flows from the Mt Etna volcano as seen from Southeast Crater, in Nicolosi, Sicily, Monday, August 14, 2023. (Photo by Salvatore Allegra/AP Photo)





The Nevado del Ruiz volcano emits a cloud of ash as seen from Bogota on August 27, 2023. The Colombian Geological Service (SGC) warned that ash fall has been observed in the city of Manizales due to the volcano's increased seismic activity since August 26. (Photo by Guillermo Munoz/AFP Photo)





A view of volcanic activity at the Halemaumau Crater, in Hawaii, U.S. September 10, 2023 in this picture obtained from social media. (Photo by Big Island VIP via Reuters)





View of the Villarrica volcano as seen from Villarrica, some 800 kilometres south of Santiago, Chile, on September 27, 2023. Villarrica is among the most active volcanoes in South America. (Photo by Sebastian Escobar/AFP Photo)





This long exposure photo taken on October 11, 2023 shows volcanic materials spewing from Mount Merapi as seen from Purwobinangun village in Sleman district, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (Photo by Priyo Utomo/Xinhua/Alamy Live News)





The Klyuchevskoy volcano, one of the highest active volcanoes in the world, erupts in Russia's northern Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far Eat, on Saturday, October 28, 2023. Huge ash columns erupted from Eurasia's tallest active volcano on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, forcing authorities to close schools in two towns in the region. (Photo by Yuri Demyanchuk/AP Photo)





In this aerial photo, plume billows out from the water off the Ioto island, following an eruption in Ogasawara, southern Tokyo, Japan, on October 30, 2023. An unnamed undersea volcano, located about 1 kilometer (half a mile) off the southern coast of Iwo Jima, which Japan calls Ioto, started its latest series of eruptions on Oct. 21. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)





A general view of the lava erupting after Etna volcano eruption begins in the early evening of November 12 and produces a volcanic cloud in Catania, Italy on November 12, 2023. The eruption that began produced a fountain of lava from the Southeast Crater. The eruptive activity was heavily covered by heavy cloudiness, but it was see the eruptive column of ash and lapilli estimated at about 4500 meters high rising above the clouds. The volcanic ash cloud has fallen on the southeastern side of the volcano particularly over the towns of Milo and Zafferana Etnea. (Photo by Salvatore Allegra/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, lights up the night sky with eruptions as seen from Mount Salto Del Cane, Italy on November 12, 2023. (Photo by Etna Walk/By Giuseppe Di Stefano & Marco Restivo/Handout via Reuters)





Smoke rises from the crack in a road in the fishing town of Grindavik, which was evacuated due to volcanic activity, in Iceland on November 15, 2023. (Photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters)





Ash column rises from Mount Ulawun, as seen from an aeroplane window, Papua New Guinea on November 21, 2023, in this picture obtained from social media. (Photo by Enoch Lapa via Reuters)





Lava erupts from snow-covered Mt Etna volcano, Sicily, Italy, early Saturday, November 25, 2023. Europe's most active volcano remains active scattering ashes around a vastly populated area on its slopes. (Photo by Etnawalk, Giuseppe Di Stefano/AP Photo)





The snow-capped Etna spews hot lava, near Catania, Sicily island, Italy, 26 November 2023. One of Europe's most active and tallest volcano has erupted again on 25 November 2023. (Photo by Dario Lo Scavo/EPA/EFE)