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Residents of a European city live in fear of a Supervolcano eruption with earthquakes every day.<\/p>\n
The powerful earthquake that shook Naples on Monday caused huge damage in the historic city but it also served as a warning that a future quake could trigger a volcanic explosion.<\/p>\n
One leading volcanologist warned that <\/span>mass evacuations might be needed as many people live on the doorstep of a so-called Supervolcano<\/span>, reports GB News.<\/span><\/p>\n Last week, the region experienced the largest earthquake in four decades when a 4.2 magnitude quake struck at the volcanic field, known as the Campi Flegrei or Phlegraean Fields.<\/span><\/p>\n The Campi Flegrei lies across the bay of Naples from Pompeii, where thousands perished when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.\u00a0<\/span>But it is a much bigger volcano than Vesuvius and it would be catastrophic if it ever exploded.<\/p>\n READ MORE: <\/strong> Fears one of world’s most violent volcanoes on brink of major eruption[LATEST] <\/strong><\/p>\n The Campi Flegrei – which is similar to the Yellowstone caldera in the United State – but holds a much higher level of risk, given more than 3 million people live close by.<\/p>\n Giuseppe De Natale, former head of the Vesuvius observatory at the National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology, said the last time Campi Flegrei suffered a similar burst of earthquakes in the 1980s, some 40,000 people were temporarily evacuated from nearby Pozzuoli.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>“Currently, I believe the more immediate risk is seismic. But it is clear that one must also consider the possibility of an eruption,” he told Reuters.<\/p>\n Although experts say an eruption is unlikely, the Campi Flegrei caldera – which has a diameter of about 12-15 km – has the potential to be devastating.<\/p>\n One of the site\u2019s largest eruptions occurred almost 39,000 years ago, causing magma to be projected as far as Greenland, 2,800 miles away.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/4992415.jpg?r=1696357280896\")
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