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Clear and present danger

, May 17, 2017

A general view of the area of steaming fumarolas at the Solfatara crater bed, in the Campi Flegrei (Phlegraean Fields), near Naples, Italy on May 16. Experts from the Vesuvius Observatory in Naples and the University College London (UCL), warned that magma is swelling beneath the crust and an eruption could be imminent. According to volcanologists, the Campi Flegrei's activity is close to hit a critical pressure point, which built up in the past years and that could trigger another eruption similar to its last one in 1538. The caldera area, restless since the 1950s, is now inhabited by some 360,000 people, with nearly a million people living in nearby Naples.  EPA/Cesare Abbate
 




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