It has been slowly waking from a four-hundred year slumber for the last eight or nine years.
The last known major eruption was in September - October 1538.
From Il Mattino (Naples), December 22:
Two Earthquakes Felt in Campi Flegrei on December 22, 2024
Two close earthquakes were felt this evening, Sunday, December 22, 2024, in Campi Flegrei. The tremors were felt by the population at 9:56 PM. Many people wrote in neighborhood Facebook groups and in the Flegrean area about having felt the tremors. Reports on social media come from Naples, Quarto, Agnano, and Pozzuoli. Some say they also heard a roar. According to the Vesuvian Observatory's website, the tremors were recorded by seismographs 20 seconds apart....
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And from Il Mattino, January 4:
Tremors Shake Campi Flegrei
The earth still trembles at the Campi Flegrei with a magnitude 2.0 quake felt at 5:21 PM. The tremor was recorded with particular intensity by detectors positioned inside the Solfatara. The initial location is in the Gulf of Pozzuoli, in the sea in front of Via Napoli...
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Previously on Campi Flegrei aka The Phlegraean Fields:
August 2012 - Risk: Supervolcano Near Pompeii Could Have Globally Catastrophic Effects
December 2016 - "Europe's Most Dangerous Supervolcano Is Reawakening Just In Time For Christmas"
As Grandmother used to say, "If it's not one tham ding it's another."
She would have made a good risk manager....November 2018 - Deadly European supervolcano could be rumbling towards a colossal eruption – study
Following up on yesterday's "Why 536 was ‘the worst year' to be alive".October 12, 2023 - "Italy plans for mass evacuation as quakes continue around supervolcano"
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.
