“We must be ready, more intense shocks are inevitable” –

Fear at dawn on Saturday 27 April for a new earthquake in the Campi Flegrei area, an area characterized by intense volcanic activity of the Caldera, the ancient supervolcano under the soil of the territory which falls within the municipalities of Naples, Pozzuoli, Quarto, Giugliano in Campania, Bacoli and Monte di Procida. The 3.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded at 5.44 am today and is the most intense of a swarm that has been affecting the area for months, sometimes with an epicenter in the sea, other times with an epicenter in the Solfatara, a phenomenon linked to a resurgence of bradyseism . The mayor of Bacoli, Josi Gerardo, who updates his fellow citizens on his social pages, reports people in the streets at dawn and that he and the local civil protection have confirmed falling rubble and some cracks but no damage. In Naples, where the earthquake was felt in some neighborhoods, only calls to the fire brigade switchboard for information. The shock was preceded and followed by others of smaller magnitude. The Vesuvian Observatory, as always, monitors the progress of the phenomenon.

An “earthquake that is part of this intense bradyseismic dynamic”, explains volcanologist Mauro Di Vito, director of the INGV Vesuvian Observatory, speaking on Tg3. “The ground continues to rise” and the bradyseismic dynamics “continue with a variable intensity. The ground has risen at a greater speed in recent days, for regarding ten days it seems to have returned to the previous values ​​- explains the expert – This makes us understand that it is a continuous process with accelerations and decelerations. Earthquakes cannot be avoided or predicted, but we can foresee that there will be others and we must be ready for this too”, explains Di Vito who underlines how earthquake prevention activities are taking place in the area. prevention.

But what is bradyseism? “The ground rises and the earth’s crust breaks”, Di Vito points out to Rainews 24, “there might be tremors of even more intense magnitude and they are inevitable, which is why it is important to continue with prevention activities”, states the president of ‘Vesuvian Observatory Invg.