Inside the Smart Tech That Predicts Volcanic Unrest

There have been between 60 to 70 volcanic eruptions in 2025. One of them occurred on June 2nd in Mount Etna, you may remember footage of tourists running from the explosion. However, the Sicilian volcano is one of the most monitored in the world, to protect the residents living on its slopes and the 1.5 million visitors the fiery mountain attracts each year. 

If history has taught us anything, with Pompeii and more recently, La Palma, cities can be great victims of volcano eruptions, leading to infrastructure, nature, and human disaster. At Mount Etna, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, INGV, relies on a connected system to sense eruptions before they happen to stay ahead of danger.

In this episode we discuss with Flavio Cannavò and Marco Aliotta researchers at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology at the Etna Observatory, the tech, platform and control room they use to know when events will happen at Mount Etna.