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phelegrean fields could blow scientists say? seriously? explosion index 8! supervulacano.
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scientists now warn that the geological developments at phelegrean fields in italy indicate they willl blow.
index is 8.
Phlegraean Fields
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Eruption, Italy, LAquila, Magma, Naples, volcano
Donar Reiskoffer licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 An eruption of the super volcano under the Phlegraean Fields would have consequences for the whole of Europe
In southern Italy slumbers under the "Campi Flegrei" a mighty volcano. For months, the pressure below the 150 square kilometer area - the earth bulges up. Researchers are trying to determine what is happening in the depths.
For a super-volcano, the area west of Naples looks quite unassuming. No conspicuous mountain peak soars - as opposed to Vesuvius on the other side of the metropolis. But authorities less concern this mountain, which in 79 buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under a thick layer of ash and rock. Rather eighth civil defense being reinforced on the 150 square kilometer, flatter area, the Greek settlers once the name "Campi Flegrei" gave: burning fields.
The name fits: In many places columns of steam rise up from crevices, rocks are colored reddish-yellow, bubbles bubbling pools in front of him, and the stench of rotten eggs permeates the air. It's bubbling under the surface and the ground rises and falls on a regular basis. In the nearby port town of Pozzuoli bear the pillars of the ancient Temple of Serapis traces of seashells - they were a long time under water, after the ground had subsided. "The system seems to breathe," says Thomas Wiersberg by the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, the escaping gases in the area analyzed.
"Such an outbreak would be a problem for all of Europe"
Under the steaming surface slumbers a mighty volcano - one of world's few dozen so-called super volcanoes. "Super volcanoes are one Explosivitätsindex the highest level 8," explains Wiersberg. This means that during an outbreak, they would throw out more than 1000 cubic kilometers of material. Famous example of the volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park in the U.S., more than two million years ago spewed more than 2000 cubic kilometers of material. Strictly speaking, the Phlegraean not deserve the term supervolcano. That on a massive eruption about 37,000 years ago, the volcano spat "only" a maximum of 350 cubic kilometers. "The explosion must have been enormous. Today would have been such an outbreak is a problem for all of Europe, "says Wiersberg.
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Earth bulges at: pressure in the Italian Super volcano rises - outbreak threatened the whole of Europe - read FOCUS Online:
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