I know that sometimes it seems to be all bad news on the blog but it's not really. For example, a few takeaways from this piece:
1) most of the time when supervolcanoes experience seismic activity there is no civilization-destroying eruption.
2) should the worst happen, the surviving woodland creatures will benefit from the re-wilding of previously urban areas.
3) It is not as if the volcano is going to go off tomorrow.
And from The Guardian, October 5:
Campi Flegrei area near Naples has been jolted by more than 1,100 earthquakes in a month
The Italian government is planning for a possible mass evacuation of tens of thousands of people who live around the Campi Flegrei supervolcano near Naples.
The new measures, which include a scheme to check on the strength of buildings in the area after months of repeated earthquakes, will be discussed at a cabinet meeting on Thursday, a government statement said.
Campi Flegrei (Phlegraean Fields) lies to the west of Naples and is dotted with towns and villages, including Pozzuoli, Agnano and Bacoli, which have a combined population of more than 500,000.
The caldera is dotted with 24 craters and is a much bigger volcano than the nearby Vesuvius, which destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in AD79....
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Previously:
- We'll Have About A Year's Notice Of A Volcanic Super-Eruption That Could End Civilization
- "Europe's Most Dangerous Supervolcano Is Reawakening Just In Time For Christmas"
- "Is a super-volcano just 390 miles from London about to erupt?"
- Risk: Supervolcano Near Pompeii Could Have Globally Catastrophic Effects
And also from the Guardian, back in 2015:
1 Laguna del Maule (Chile)
Currently inflating at the astonishing rate of 25cm a year, above a growing body of magma just 5km beneath the surface.
2 Uturuncu (Bolivia)
A 70km-wide bulge that has been growing since the early 1990s could culminate in a gigantic eruption.
3 Alban Hills (Italy)
Just 20km south-east of Rome, this huge volcano has started to become restless following more than 30,000 quiet years.
4 Campi Flegrei (Italy)
The archetypal “restless volcano” on the edge of Naples has not erupted since 1538, but has shown worrying signs, on and off, since the 1970s.
5 Yellowstone (Wyoming, US)
No eruption for around 70,000 years, but congenitally restless....MORE
