The Campi Flegrei supervolcano area near Naples, Italy, recently encountered a magnitude 4.4 earthquake, the most powerful in decades.
The earthquake was part of a series of seismic events called a “seismic storm,” with over a dozen earthquakes of magnitude 2.0 or higher in recent days.
Campi Flegrei, also referred to as the Phlegrean Fields, is a volcanic region in Italy.
Reason Behind Abundance of Volcanoes in ItalyItaly’s abundance of volcanoes stems from its location along a tectonic plate boundary, where the African Plate subducts beneath the Eurasian Plate. This geological activity fosters conditions conducive to volcanic eruptions, resulting in the formation of numerous active and dormant volcanoes. |
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