{"id":180649,"date":"2018-12-17T06:43:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T06:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=180649"},"modified":"2018-12-19T05:17:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T05:17:35","slug":"volcano-warning-naples-supervolcano-showing-signs-of-possible-vesuvian-style-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=180649","title":{"rendered":"Volcano WARNING: Naples supervolcano showing &#8216;signs&#8217; of possible &#8216;Vesuvian-style eruption&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<h1>Charlotte Davies \u2013 The Daily Express Dec 16, 2018<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5IkvO-1-2as\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/volcanoes\">volcano<\/a>, which is located in the highly-populated Italian city of Naples, could at some point in the \u201cforeseeable future\u201d have a Vesuvian-style eruption, warned Dr Christopher Kilburn, a professor at University College London and expert in volcanic hazard. Speaking to Express.co.uk, Dr Kilburn explained how Campi Flegrei is a caldera and was produced by a large-scale eruption. He said: \u201cThe last major collapse occurred 15,500 years ago. Since then there have been lots of small eruptions within the caldera which is populated by about 350,000 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe size of these eruptions is comparatively modest. When I say comparatively, the larger sizes are about the size of the Vesuvius eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum \u2013 so fairly big for human beings but small compared with what the volcano has done in the past.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The volcanologist, who has worked closely with the Vesuvius Observatory in Naples to analyse the volcano, explained how the last historic eruption was in 1538.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_180651\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Naples-volcano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180651\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-180651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Naples-volcano-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"Campi Flegrei. Click to enlarge \" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Naples-volcano-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Naples-volcano.jpg 835w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-180651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campi Flegrei. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But the professor warned: \u201cSince then it has been showing episodes of unrest \u2013 that means the ground has at the centre of the caldera the ground has been uplifted overall by just under four metres in the last 60 years or so. So, about two metres in two years with long intervals and nothing in between.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dr Kilburn warned the Campi Flegrei volcano is \u201cactive and will erupt again\u201d at some point in the future. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He added: \u201cThe point is that because it is the first time in nearly 400 years that the volcano has been showing this type of unrest, there is now concern that the volcano might be getting ready for another eruption in the foreseeable future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cBut that type of eruption is of the size of possibly a Vesuvian-style or even much smaller.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cSo we are not talking about another giant eruption that might produce another caldera.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dr Kilburn said it is \u201cimportant to be aware\u201d that the volcano is active. But he urged people living in the area not to worry, adding: \u201cIt is important to be reassured that plans are being made and not to be worried every day that something might happen because that is actually not the case.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The region surrounding Campi Flegrei was the scene of two huge eruptions &#8211; the Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption of 39,000 years ago and the Neapolitan Yellow Tuff (NYT) eruption which happened 15,000 years ago &#8211; plus many smaller events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The most recent was the eruption of Monte Nuovo in 1538.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Campi Flegrei is located around 11 miles (18 kilometres) west of Naples, which is home to around a million people. Mount Vesuvius is around 13 miles (22 km) to the east of the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Unlike many volcanoes, Campi Flegrei is mainly flat and is accessible on foot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Some 360,000 people live across Campi Flegrei\u2019s caldera which covers more than 38 square miles (100 sq km) and is the closest historically-active volcano to <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/London\">London<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If it were to erupt, it could disrupt air traffic across Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1059446\/Volcano-eruption-warning-Italy-Naples-Campi-Flegrei-supervolcano-Mount-Vesuvius\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s Campi Flegrei volcano could be \u201cgetting ready for another eruption\u201d, says volcano expert <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Earth_changes_and_the_End_Times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180649"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180654,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180649\/revisions\/180654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}