Italy plans for supervolcano evacuations

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


Varcaturo
Lido di Licola
Monteruscello
2km 1.25 miles
Quarto
Marano di Napoli
Camaldoli
NAPLES
Gulf of Naples

Area of recent earthquakes
Baiae
Bacoli
Pozzuoli
Gulf of Pozzuoli
Agnano
Bagnoli
Cape Miseno

Sep-Oct 2023: Campi Flegrei caldera, or collapsed volcano, jolted by more than 1,100 earthquakes, including 4.2-magnitude quake on Sep 27 – strongest in area for four decades. Some 500,000 people live inside caldera


Detail


PREVIOUS ACTIVITY

1950s, 1970s and 1980s
Numerous small earthquakes coinciding with uplift in crust as magma builds below surface

1538: Last eruption

39,000 years ago: Eruption may have led to extinction of Neanderthal man. Magma from blast found 4,500km away


Source: Reuters
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