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Posted on 03/30/2010 6:33:20 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
EUROPE'S largest undersea volcano could disintegrate and unleash a tsunami that would engulf southern Italy "at any time", a prominent vulcanologist has warned.
The Marsili volcano, which is bursting with magma, has "fragile walls" that could collapse, Enzo Boschi told the leading daily Corriere della Sera.
"It could even happen tomorrow," Prof Boschi, president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said
"Our latest research shows that the volcano is not structurally solid, its walls are fragile, the magma chamber is of sizeable dimensions," he said.
"All that tells us that the volcano is active and could begin erupting at any time."
The event would result in "a strong tsunami that could strike the coasts of Campania, Calabria and Sicily," Prof Boschi said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
The people living on Penang had part of the Indonesian tsunami hit their beaches even though they weren't in a direct line from the point source. We know a guy who stood on his porch watching it come in (he lived up a hill. Some people died there.)
The Western Mediterranean will be WRACKED with tsunami waves for hours, and that will include Spain, France, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and possibly even Egypt ~ just like Penang got hit.
Broken link!
>>>This is a Chicken Little alert! Take cover!
I knew looking at the topic someone would take that tack. Media sensationalism aside, it’s happened before and will happen again. The Mediterranean Ring of Fire has many active volcanoes, and periodically they blow up big.
Look up what happened to the Minoans. The same tsunamis hit half the Med’s shores hard.
It’s like the Yellowstone situation. You know it will happen one day. You just don’t know precisely when.
RIGHT.
I was hoping some clever soul could ‘unbroken’ it!
Errrr . . . fix it.
Just think what a small tactical nuke could do for the new coastline of central Italy. Costa Del Lex. Luthorville. Marina del Lex. Otisburg. OTISBURG????
in the meantime, yellowstone is overdue to erupt, yawn.
Probably not. Just remember this is from the “If it bleeds, it leads” media. If they had 4 scientists saying :”It’s dead, Jim.” and one saying “It could blow tomorrow!” guess who gets quoted.
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*yawn*
Let me know when it happens. I was there for the last big quake in ‘57.
I’ll bring the popcorn. ;o]
I didn't realize Bush was responsible for the underwater volcanoes too.
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