24 Oct 1999 h. 16:45. Bocca Nuova has been relatively quiet all day long, despite our "forecast" of a paroxysm for 7:30 in the morning :-). During the afternoon, a short excursion below the South East Crater reveals that a lava flow is coming out of a vertically split hornito. It does not reach the "quality" of the Easter flows, nor of those witnessed by Jürg a few days later. But there is still the duty of the reporter... 539 KB

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