dangers and eventualities in response to the speaker –

Extra info for residents, better coaching alternatives for municipal technicians, strengthening of gathering areas, discount of obstacles to flee routes: these are among the measures developed by the mayors of the Phlegraean space, which continues to be hit by earthquakes of earthquake. Having famous by the INGV consultants that there isn’t any threat of the magma rising once more, all of the actions essential to make the verification phases of the buildings and the connection with residents extra manageable have been evaluated. It was mentioned on Zona Bianca, the politics and present affairs program of Rete 4, the place (amongst others) the science communicator Luigi Bignami spoke. “Is it true that that is among the most harmful areas on the planet?” requested the host.

“Completely sure. It’s a supervolcano, one of many hundred which are on Earth. About ten of those are nonetheless lively and the Campi Flegrei are amongst them. We discuss bradyseism, however from zero to 1 hundred that’s the downside 0.5”, he stated the skilled answered straight. “The whole lot else is the issue of the volcano, which doesn’t finish on land however continues into the ocean”, he specified. “When it actually and really violently exploded 40 thousand years in the past, the ashes reached the gates of Moscow. One other eruption occurred 20 thousand years in the past and one other 15 thousand. The final one arrived in 1538 and, in that case, the bottom rose by 5 metres. We’re speaking regarding very small variations over the course of a 12 months that give rise to your downside”, he stated, however now we want to consider “the seriousness of the issue in its actual dimension”.