Posted on 12/22/2016 11:17:19 AM PST by blam
BEC CREW
22 DEC 2016
It's dangerously close to hitting a critical pressure point.
A 12-km wide cauldron that forms a vast supervolcano on the coast of Italy is showing signs of reawakening after almost 500 years of inactivity.
Not only is this site rumoured to be responsible for the extinction of the Neanderthals, it’s got 500,000 people living around it right now, and researchers say it appears to be approaching a critical pressure point that could lead to an eruption.
You might imagine a supervolcano as like a regular volcano, only supersized, rising up out of the ground and puffing whirls of menacing smoke from its gaping maw.
But in reality, supervolcanos are extensive fields of volcanic activity, formed when a volcano ejects so much magma from its centre, it collapses in on itself, leaving behind a vast crater, and a landscape littered with geysers, hydrothermal activity, and sulphuric acid.
Think Yellowstone, where lava eruptions and swelling steam vents make up a constantly bubbling, otherworldly landscape.
Campi Flegrei - or "burning fields" in Italian - is another extensive volcanic area, located to the west of Naples, Italy.
Boasting 24 craters and large volcanic edifices, mostly hidden under the Mediterranean Sea, this ancient 'caldera' - or cauldron-like depression - formed 39,000 years ago, as part of the biggest eruption Europe has seen in the past 200,000 years.
Since its formation, Campi Flegrei has only had two major eruptions - 35,000 years ago and 12,000 years ago - and a smaller eruption that occurred in 1538.
But when we say "smaller", it’s all relative, because the 1538 eruption lasted for eight days straight, and spewed so much material into the surrounding area, it formed a new mountain, Monte Nuovo.
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It's Always Something. (IAS)
The UN will stop this if the US pays it’s back obligations...
Maybe we’ll get lucky and an asteroid will plug it.
D**n those Trump supporters! Look at what they have done now!
Don’t worry. The Supervolcano can always pay for Carbon Tax Credits.
It’s just an Inconvenient Supervolcano.
Has anyone thought about drilling into it to relieve some of the pressure?
I’m no scientist.....
Nothing Bruce Willis and Co. can’t handle.
Sounds like a good spot to dump all the refugees.
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>> “rumored to be responsible for the extinction of the Neanderthals...” <<
What nonsense!
Neanderthals are all over western Europe.
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“D**n those Trump supporters! Look at what they have done now!”
Mabe it was the Brexit supporters.
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R U a sorcerer’s apprentice?
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R U a sorcerer’s apprentice?
I’ll never tell...
“Xenu, also called Xemu, was, according to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, the dictator of the “Galactic Confederacy” who 75 million years ago brought billions of his people to Earth (then known as “Teegeeack”) in DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes, and killed them with hydrogen bombs.”
Wikipedia
You piqued my interest, and I found this:
Maybe just bomb it. Not a scientist either. A small bomb. Not too big.
Like drilling into a shaken can of soda. What could go wrong?
"Has anyone thought about drilling into it to relieve some of the pressure?"
I'm not a geologist, but I can imagine immense problems with that given the scope of what they're talking about. Once you take the cork out of this bottle, there's no way to put it back in and you'd better know exactly what the bottle's contents will do.
Send all the Muslim refugees to Campi Flegrei.
A huge eruption like that would drastically change the weather over the whole continent. Google “the year without a summer”.
Yep an asteroid will plug it )LOL.
Remember someone wanted to name an asteroid after Trayvon Martin; I wonder whatever happened to that plan.
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