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Italy's Campi Flegrei super volcano rocked by strongest earthquake in 40 years
The Campi Flegrei or Phlegraean Fields, a highly seismic area in Italy's southern Campania region near Naples, was shaken …
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An unofficial Catholic shrine at the summit of Vesuvius When Vesuvius goes off, he explained, it won't be a trickle. In the past, entire hillsides have been blown to pieces. Beneath Naples, the African …Altro
An unofficial Catholic shrine at the summit of Vesuvius
When Vesuvius goes off, he explained, it won't be a trickle. In the past, entire hillsides have been blown to pieces. Beneath Naples, the African tectonic plate is colliding and descending beneath Europe, creating a more combustible mixture of magma and gas than volcanoes in places like Iceland or Hawaii.
When we calculate the energy in these events, we're looking at tens, hundreds or even thousands of Hiroshimas - Giovanni Macedonio
"Here we have very violent eruptions," Macedonio explained in a talk at the summit. "In terms of energy we're talking about several nuclear bombs. With the difference that with nuclear explosions, the energy is released in less than a millisecond, here that energy is released over several days. But when we calculate the energy in these events, we're looking at tens, hundreds or even thousands of Hiroshimas."
Anticipating that threat, Naples officials have organised the city into zones: those in the "…Altro
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