Volcanic Rumbles Mean Magma Might Be Seeping Under Naples

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http://www.wired.com/2015/09/volcanic-r ... ng-naples/

Volcanic Rumbles Mean Magma Might Be Seeping Under Naples

If you wanted to pick the most volcanically-hazardous place to live on Earth today, it would be hard to beat Naples in Italy. Vesuvius looms over the city, settled into a rather long period of quiet after centuries of sometimes spectacular (and deadly) eruptions. However, just to the west of Vesuvius is the equally hazardous Campi Flegrei. Unlike Vesuvius, there are no towering mountains, but rather a series of somewhat unassuming cones and craters all nestled within a caldera that spans over 20 kilometers around Pozzuoli. The Campi Flegrei has produced two of the biggest eruptions Europe has seen in the last 50,000 years: the Campanian Ignimbrite (40,000 years ago) and the Neapolitan Yellow Tuff (15,000 years ago), both of which ranked as VEI 6-7 (or something as big as or larger than Krakatau in 1883!) So, sitting underneath over a million people sits the European equivalent to something like Tambora.

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[JimC]

See Naples and die...