Unusual eruptions

9. April 1999

Report by Pierre Cottens: I was woken up by two explosions separated by a few minutes: local time 03:05 and 03:09. The second one was stronger. From the Hotel Ossidiana where I was sleeping, nothing can be seen on the volcano, as it had been raining since midnight, and fog covered the top of Stromboli. A group of geologists from Cosenza was in the hotel that night, and they all confirm having been woken up. Compared with the sound of the eruptions of last November/December, these two could be considered as unusual, probably dangerous also for tourists, that fortunately were not on the top due to bad weather.