Mount Etna to widespread reports of up to 15,000 (or even 20,000) human fatalities caused by the lava, contemporaneous accounts written both in Italian and English mention no deaths related to the 1669 eruption (but give very precise figures of the number of buildings destroyed, the area of cultivated land lost, and the economic damage). Therefore, it is uncertain where the enormous number of fatalities can be attributed. One possibility is confusion between this eruption and an earthquake that devastated southeast Sicily (including Catania) 24 years later in 1693. A study on the damage and fatalities caused by eruptions of Etna in
Etna, Wyoming Etna, Wyoming Etna is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 164 at the 2010 census. Etna is located at (43.031124, -111.016042). in Star Valley, a grassland valley surrounded by forested mountains. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.1 km²), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 123 people, 44 households, and 34 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 62.8 people per square mile (24.2/km²). There were 55 housing units at an average density of