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European supervolcano at ‘CRITICAL STAGE’ as eruption threatens 360,000 lives<\/h3>\n
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By Nicole Stinson
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May 17, 2017<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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SUPERVOLCANO Campi Flegrei is at a critical stage and scientists have warned that European authorities need to be ready \u2013 as experts fear the lives of more than 360,000 people across Europe could be at risk.<\/p>\n

Campi Flegrei, located around 11 miles (18 kilometres) southwest of Naples, Italy, has not erupted since 1538, but volcano experts believe it could be building up to another devastating eruption.<\/p>\n

Scientists from the University College London (UCL) and the Vesuvius Observatory in Naples have been studying the patterns of unrest since Campi Flegrei\u2019s last eruption more than 500 years ago.<\/p>\n

They concluded that the volcano may be \u201ccloser to an eruption than previously thought\u201d and was instead \u201capproaching a critical stage\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Dr Christopher Kilburn, director of the UCL Hazard Centre, said: \u201cBy studying how the ground is cracking and moving at Campi Flegrei, we think it may be approaching a critical stage where further unrest will increase the possibility of an eruption, and it\u2019s imperative that the authorities are prepared for this.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know when or if this long-term unrest will lead to an eruption, but Campi Flegrei is following a trend we\u2019ve seen when testing our model on other volcanoes, including Rabaul in Papua New Guinea, El Hierro in the Canary Islands, and Soufriere Hills on Montserrat in the Caribbean.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWe are getting closer to forecasting eruptions at volcanoes that have been quiet for generations by using detailed physical models to understand how the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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European supervolcano at ‘CRITICAL STAGE’ as eruption threatens 360,000 lives By Nicole Stinson Express May 17, 2017 SUPERVOLCANO Campi Flegrei is at a critical stage and scientists have warned that European authorities need to be ready \u2013 as experts fear the lives of more than 360,000 people across Europe could be at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-308587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}