I dug up this 2013 post as background for this past week’s excellent blog post by volcanologist Erik Klemetti on Campi Flegrei in Italy–it may warming up again (but there is nothing to indicate an eruption is likely in our lifetimes, let alone imminent).
In the midst of life we are in death …
An article about a volcano shouldn’t mention that, I suppose – or perhaps all such articles should. It can go either way.
Volcanoes do deal death and destruction all around, but at the same time they’re enriching and feeding us.
Anyway, the line came to me while reading up on this week’s volcano, Campi Flegrei, on the other side of Naples from Vesuvius. As mentioned last week, this is Vesuvius’ Granddaddy in terms of size and potential threat.
Vesuvius can and has messed up the Naples region.
Campi Flegrei can and has messed up a 2- to 4-million-km2 area stretching from the central Mediterranean to Russia, possibly even delivering the final coup de grace to the fading Neanderthal species of humans at the same time.
This bad boy… Continue reading
