Tozzi speaks. Hypotheses and dangers – Time

At Palazzo Chigi, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will chair the inter-ministerial assembly to observe the scenario within the Campi Flegrei space, after the seismic swarm recorded on Monday night and the brand new earthquake this morning. The magnitude was 3.6, recorded by the Nationwide Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Ingv) at a depth of two kilometers and the tremor was felt on the higher flooring in numerous neighborhoods of Naples and within the municipalities closest to the world affected by bradyseism. In accordance with the top of Civil Safety Nello Musumeci there will likely be “additional interventions by the federal government, after these already promoted and being applied. I’m in fixed contact with the Prime Minister who’s following the scenario”. However what is going on within the space? What are the dangers? The well-known geologist and science communicator Mario Tozzi, in an interview given to the Quotidiano Nazionale, defined that “the tremors are because of the stress of the earth’s crust, the push from beneath of one thing that presses”.

It isn’t clear whether or not “this factor that pushes” are “hydrothermal fluids on the head of the magmatic column, that’s, scorching, liquid and gaseous, or whether or not it’s magma that pushes”, he continued, additionally specifying that the distinction between the 2 hypotheses “is necessary “. If it had been the second case, then he want to say that “we’re near an eruption. However so far as I do know it’s at the moment at 5 thousand meters and due to this fact we are able to relaxation assured”, mentioned Tozzi. The issue, in accordance with the geologist, is extra for the state of the Campi Flegrei: “It is as if 1000’s of individuals had been sitting on a supervolcano and as an alternative of maintaining it underneath management and attentive, what do they do? They construct a hospital, a racecourse, a navy base, a metropolis of 80 thousand inhabitants. No matter occurs there’s a downside.” An space that might have grow to be a big pure park is as an alternative “inhabited by 600 thousand individuals. And nonetheless there are individuals who proceed to return right here as a result of it’s a splendid place. So do not come and inform me the story of the evil State. The reality it is that they should not have come to reside there, individuals should not have stayed there”, he added.