Friday, December 23, 2016

"Europe's Most Dangerous Supervolcano Is Reawakening Just In Time For Christmas"

As Grandmother used to say, "If it's not one tham ding it's another."
She would have made a good risk manager.
From Forbes:
Just below millions of people there is a supervolcano that has begun to show signs of reawakening. The supervolcano, Campi Flegrei, is 8 miles wide and sits beneath the Bay of Naples offshore Italy.

Recent monitoring of the volcano points to a reawakening of one of the largest volcanos in Europe.
An international team of geoscientists have monitored the volcano's caldera for signs of activity and recently published results in the journal Nature Communications on the increased danger of an eruption.

Campi Flegrei, which means "burning fields" in Italian, is believed to have formed hundreds of thousands of years ago and has erupted on several occasions in recent geologic time. The initial eruption, which occurred 200,000 years ago triggered a "volcanic winter" from the massive amount of ash ejected into the atmosphere. The volcano then erupted again 40,000 and 12,000 years ago.

The eruption 40,000 years ago is thought to have wiped out most of the European Neanderthals and was one of the largest volcanic eruptions of all time. In recent memory, Campi Flegrei erupted in 1538 for 8 days straight, sending ash across Europe and forming the new mountain Monte Nuovo....MUCH MORE