Important Takeaways:
- Earthquake hits volcanic crater near Naples: Strongest tremor to hit region in decades sparks panic, with buildings damaged
- The strongest earthquakes in decades were registered at a volcanic caldera near the southern Italian city of Naples on Monday night, sending panicked residents flocking into the streets.
- One 4.4-magnitude quake was registered shortly after 8pm (1800 GMT) at a depth of 1.6 miles, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).
- It was preceded moments earlier by a 3.5-magnitude tremor and followed by dozens of aftershocks.
- The Campi Flegrei – or Phlegraean Fields, as the caldera is known – experienced about 150 earthquakes between 7:51pm on Monday and 12:31am on Tuesday, the INGV said in a report.
- According to the institute’s Mauro Di Vito, ‘this is the most powerful seismic swarm in the last 40 years’.
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Luke 21:11 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Important Takeaways:
- Europe’s most dangerous supervolcano ‘on verge of eruption’ and may spark global winter
- An eruption could cause mass extinctions, obliterate crops, and see people living nearby evacuated – but scientists deny such an incident is “inevitable” and explain what triggers would push it to potential breaking point.
- The crust of the Campi Flegrei volcano, near Naples in southern Italy, is becoming weaker and more prone to rupturing, “making an eruption more likely”, research recently published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment said.
- If the eruption was to be similar to its largest previous one, it would launch molten rock and volcanic gases high into the stratosphere.
- This would lead to 100-feet-high (33.5 meters) tsunamis and the spread of sulfur and toxic ash that could plunge Earth into global winter for years, destroying crops and wildlife alike.
- And most at risk are the roughly 500,000 people whose homes lie near the super volcano – many of them in the coastal town of Pozzuoli
- Lead author Professor Christopher Kilburn (UCL Earth Sciences) said: “Our new study confirms that Campi Flegrei is moving closer to rupture.”
- There is an evacuation plan in place for those living near the dormant volcano. People would be moved out within three days, either by their own transport or buses, trains and boats.
- However, scientists are not saying a huge eruption of the scale capable of causing global winter is inevitable, with two conditions being necessary before that happens.
- For volcanoes to blow, gases must build up faster than they can escape, and magma also needs to be able to move rapidly through the crust where a crack has formed. Scientists cannot know for certain these conditions have been met until an eruption takes place.
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