Posted on 12/21/2016 7:32:05 AM PST by BenLurkin
A slumbering Campi Flegrei volcano under the Italian city of Naples shows signs of "reawakening" and may be nearing a critical pressure point, according to a study published Tuesday.
Italian and French scientists have for the first time identified a threshold beyond which rising magma under the Earth's surface could trigger the release of fluids and gases at a 10-fold increased rate.
This would cause the injection of high-temperature steam into surrounding rocks, said lead author Giovanni Chiodini, a researcher at Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Bologna.
"Hydrothermal rocks, if heated, can ultimately lose their mechanical resistance, causing an acceleration towards critical conditions," he told AFP by email.
It is not possible at this time to say when—or if—the volcano will erupt anew, he said.
If it did, however, "it would be very dangerous" for the half-million people living inside and near the caldera, he added, using the scientific name for the bowl-like depression created after a volcano blows its top.
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Ok well THAT is reassuring...
Obviously, Bush's Fault
The pace of ground deformation and low-level seismic activity has recently increased.
Trump's fault.
“half-million people living inside and near the caldera”
Bye.
Its’a gonna go BA-DOOM-BA!!
In other words "It go boom"
People don’t remember even back into their youths...what their parents said is irrelevant (”Nah, it won’t happen here!”).
When I lived on the coast in Oregon I used to lie in bed and watch the light fixture sway...due to little tremors.
When I had a chance to leave, I took it. What’s with those people living in the caldera????
People don’t remember even back into their youths...what their parents said is irrelevant (”Nah, it won’t happen here!”).
When I lived on the coast in Oregon I used to lie in bed and watch the light fixture sway...due to little tremors.
When I had a chance to leave, I took it. What’s with those people living in the caldera????
For democrats
To put it mildly.
You’ve also got Vesuvius nearby, which supposedly blows every 2000 years, the last time was 79 AD, you may have heard of it, it was called , “Pompeii”.
Italian Meatballs
Place 500,000 Italians in a cauldron.
Steam until done
Serve.
Sounds like an ideal place to build an immigrant camp. Maybe the steam and tremors would turn then into Christians.
Maybe it is me but it doesn’t seem to wise to live inside a caldera.
holy unliquified blood of St. Januarius, Batman!
Hey, my geography isn’t so good.
Is this any where close to the Vatican?
Just askin’.
Relocate the ‘refugee’ male moslems to the area and ‘settle’ them closer to their father ...
Vesuvius erupted in the 1600s I think
Damn global warming again!
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