The Campi Flegrei caldera, at the mouth of the Bay of Naples, has been restless for 73 years. A new study suggests that all this activity is headed towards ... something.
However, the recent history of the Campi Flegrei has been a little more subdued. In 1538, a new cinder cone formed in the area. It was named "" or "New Mountain". It was tiny compared to the big explosions I just mentioned, but it still rained volcanic bombs and ash on the region as well as produced lava flows as well.
because there were sufficient signs of a potential eruption. Nothing ended up happening in either case, which can potentially erode the public's trust of emergency managers and volcano monitoring agencies.tries to better quantify the state of stress in the Campi Flegrei. That's because, as they point out in the first line of the study "volcanoes reawakening after long repose must rupture the crust before magma can erupt".
Kilburn and others say that the initial rupturing of the crust ~2 miles down began in 1984 but halted. However, recent changes suggest that the rupturing resumed in 2020, reaching ever closer to the surface. The focus of the deformation is, so that could be the potential location of any new eruption.
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