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Is the Supervolcano Under Naples About to Blow?

Wednesday, December 21, 2016 7:08
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Campi Flegrei crater shows signs of ‘reawakening’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4054208/Is-SUPERVOLCANO-Naples-blow-Campi-Flegrei-crater-shows-signs-reawakening.html

“The slumbering Campi Flegrei volcano under the Italian city of Naples shows signs of ‘reawakening’, a new study has warned. Researchers said that the simmering volcano may be nearing a critical pressure point. For the first time, they have 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.”

“The last time the ground gave way like this, 39,000 years ago when the caldera was formed, it created the cliffs that the postcard town of Sorrento stands on now – volcanic deposits over 300ft deep. If the same kind of eruption happened today, this part of Italy could cease to exist, and the ash clouds would blot out the Sun and lower the Earth’s temperature. Life in the UK as we know it would end. We would lose our livestock, crops and three-quarters of our plant species, plunging us into a new dark age of rioting, starvation and perpetual winter. “

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1342820/Vesuviuss-big-daddy-supervolcano-Campi-Flegrei-near-Naples-threatens-Europe.html 

As a footnote the last time this erupted it may have made the Neanderthals extinct.

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