The surge of seismic activity in Italy this week has seen civil emergency plans and foreign travel advisories stress preparedness for more earthquakes. A series of earthquakes caused the evacuation of Campi Flegrei, near Naples. Tourists, residents and the inmates of a women’s prison were moved into temporary shelter in the seaside town of Pozzuoli on Tuesday, according to Euronews.
A 4.4-magnitude tremor was followed by 150 aftershocks, felt throughout Naples. This prompted Italy to allocate additional funds for strengthening evacuation plans and buildings.
But should tourists rethink visits to Naples? Italy’s active volcanoes The Bay of Naples is world-renowned for its turbulent volcanic history. The city is on top of a seismic triangle of three volcanic craters: Campi Flegrei, the island of Ischia and Vesuvius, the stratovolcano at the centre of the Vesuvio National Park. The latter is responsible for the area’s best-known attraction, the petrified city of Pompeii .
The eruption of Vesuvius in AD79 buried several Roman settlements south of the bay, the eerie remains of which are still being found. The region lives in the shadow of another eruption. About 1.
5 million people live within the potential fall-out zone. With increased seismic activity, the Italian Government has devised mass evacuation plans in the event of one of these super-volcanoes reawakening. This month, the region plans to run a test in the area of Campi Flegrei, where half a million people live in �.
