He National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology of Italia (INGV) has registered at 10:01 a.m. on Tuesday a Magnitude earthquake 4.2 from the Richter scale with epicenter 14 kilometers deep in the province of Powerin the Basilicata regionin it Southern Italy. The tremor, which was followed by another shake of 2.2, and slightly lower than the one who suffered the province of Naples last week, has not caused damage to people or homes or other buildings, as reported by the body of the Firefighters.
Even so, before the shakes, the protocol provided in these situations has been activated and they have been Evacuated schools and offices. In addition to this, hundreds of people They have been thrown out To the streets Already other outdoor spaces, even in the nearby town of Matera, a World Heritage City of UNESCO.
He New tremor It occurs after a week in which the alert by the Seismic activity In Italy it is particularly high due to the earthquakes that are affecting the province of Naples, especially the area of the Supervolcan of the Fluges fields. This is an ecosystem considered one of the most dangerous in the world for its devastating destructive potential in case of eruption and that is also in a highly populated area.
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In fact, although at the moment there are no signs that this can occur in immediacy, geologists and volcanologists have been warning that the flowering fields suffer For more than a decade of ‘Bradisismo’, for which soil level increases depending on gas and magma accumulated in the depths. Moreover, in the last three weeks, the phenomenon has grown in intensity, with the ground growing some three centimeters the weekdouble the previous measurement, according to the Vesubian Observatory.
The fluttered fields have suffered 70 rashes in 15,000 yearsof which only 3 or 4 considered really violent and The last one in 1538when the new mountain was created, a new mount originated by the outbreak. With this, “in case of a future eruption in the more or less close future-of which, it is important to reiterate it, there is no signal at this time-the most likely scenario is that of an eruption of medium-low intensity,” explained the geologist Andrea Moccia recently.
