{"id":2545,"date":"2010-04-08T16:20:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T15:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2013-12-15T00:31:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T22:31:54","slug":"europes-largest-undersea-volcano-may-flood-southern-italy-any-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/science\/europes-largest-undersea-volcano-may-flood-southern-italy-any-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s Largest Undersea Volcano May Flood Southern Italy Any Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Europe&#8217;s Largest Undersea Volcano May Flood Southern Italy Any Moment<\/h4>\n<p class=\"note\">\nThe Marsili Volcano\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Europe&#8217;s largest undersea volcano could disintegrate and unleash a tsunami that would engulf southern Italy &#8220;at any time&#8221;, a prominent vulcanologist warned in an interview published Monday.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mt-Marsili-Europe-Italy-Volcano.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2583\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/science\/europes-largest-undersea-volcano-may-flood-southern-italy-any-moment\/attachment\/mt-marsili-europe-italy-volcano\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mt-Marsili-Europe-Italy-Volcano.jpg?fit=595%2C270\" data-orig-size=\"595,270\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mt-Marsili-Europe-Italy-Volcano\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Mountain Marsili Undersea Volcano&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mt-Marsili-Europe-Italy-Volcano.jpg?fit=590%2C267\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mt-Marsili-Europe-Italy-Volcano.jpg?resize=340%2C154\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mt-Marsili-Europe-Italy-Volcano\" width=\"340\" height=\"154\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2583\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Marsili volcano, which is bursting with magma, has &#8220;fragile walls&#8221; that could collapse, Enzo Boschi told the leading daily Corriere della Sera.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could even happen tomorrow,&#8221; said Boschi, president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our latest research shows that the volcano is not structurally solid, its walls are fragile, the magma chamber is of sizeable dimensions,&#8221; he said. &#8220;All that tells us that the volcano is active and could begin erupting at any time,&#8221; AFP reported.  <\/p>\n<p>According to ShortNews.com, the volcano, located 150km off the coast of Naples, rises 3000m off the ocean floor and peaks some 450 metres below the surface. It measures 30km by 70km. It has a big magma chamber which is under pressure and its walls are structurally fragile.<\/p>\n<p>AHN News has reported that, the volcano\u2019s crater is 1,467 feet below the surface of the Tyrrhenian Sea and a tsunami could hit the coasts of Campania, Calabria and Sicily, Boschi warned in an interview published Monday in an Italian newspaper.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"500\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.psyched.be\\\/wordpress\\\/science\\\/europes-largest-undersea-volcano-may-flood-southern-italy-any-moment\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:253061485}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 104px;\" data-original-width=\"500\" data-original-height=\"104\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 138px; height: 104px;\" data-original-width=\"138\" data-original-height=\"104\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-small\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/science\/europes-largest-undersea-volcano-may-flood-southern-italy-any-moment\/attachment\/underwater-volcano-italy-south\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"134\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"100\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"2582\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/underwater-volcano-italy-south.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"340,255\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"underwater-volcano-italy-south\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;underwater volcano South-Italy&lt;\/p&gt; 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height: 100px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<div class=\"editNote\">\n&lt;&lt;Editors notE&gt;&gt;<br \/>\nNature is showing it&#8217;s teeth the last couple of years, all kinds of weather anomalies (man-made or not, let&#8217;s keep that open for discussion ;) ), active volcanoes, superstorms, blizzards, shifting of tectonical plates, u name it, &#8220;Gaia&#8221; has it.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ld say: prepare for a world that is a changing.<br \/>\nIt won&#8217;t be the end of it all, but it will kick us a conscience again n bring our 2 feet back to the ground.<br \/>\nThere are always two sides we have to look at, and in order to make everything function properly, we&#8217;ld better find a good road in between what&#8217;s good n what&#8217;s bad for all&#8230; (And I&#8217;m saying that without being religious&#8230; )<\/p>\n<p>&copy;copyright\/\/Source::<a href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/news\/world\/30-03-2010\/112784-volcano-0\" title=\"Marsili Volcano\" target=\"_blank\">english.pravda.ru<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s Largest Undersea Volcano May Flood Southern Italy Any Moment The Marsili Volcano Europe&#8217;s largest undersea volcano could disintegrate and unleash a tsunami that would engulf southern Italy &#8220;at any time&#8221;, a prominent vulcanologist warned in an interview published Monday. The Marsili volcano, which is bursting with magma, has &#8220;fragile walls&#8221; that could collapse, Enzo Boschi told the leading daily Corriere della Sera. &#8220;It could even happen tomorrow,&#8221; said Boschi, president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). &#8220;Our latest research shows that<strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,33,14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-nature","category-science","category-xtreme"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph7OQR-F3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}