Shocks in the Phlegraean Fields, the crisis unit activated: «But here no one knows what to do» Most violent seismic swarm of the last forty years, night on the streets for many.

POZZUOLI, Italy – In the red zone of the awakening Phlegraean Fields, the most dangerous volcano in Europe, 2,000-year-old ruins are rising from the earth, thrust upward by hydrothermal force.

The Phlegraean Fields caldera has an elliptical shape with a diameter of 12 to 15 kilometers. It is difficult to make out on maps because it has been heavily reshaped by myriad geological ...

Italy's Phlegraean Fields is a hotspot of volcanic activity—an ever-shifting landscape pocketed with acidic hot springs. This huge caldera is a part of the Campanian volcanic arc, which includes ...

In the Phlegraean Fields, an Italian volcanic region, a microscopic algae called Cyanidioschyzon merolae thrives in extreme conditions. Researchers from Michigan State University are exploring its ...

A helping hand towards Pozzuoli and the Phlegraean municipalities, affected by bradyseism, comes from Sardinia and the city ...

Phlegraean Fields — Puffing out clouds of vapor continuously, is a volcanic phenomenon not far from Naples. And it's not Vesuvius, whose spectacular eruption doomed the flourishing Roman cities of ...

The Phlegraean volcanic fields just west of Naples, Italy, are among the top eight emitters of volcanic carbon dioxide in the world. Since 2005, the Solfatara crater—one of many circular ...

The Phlegraean volcanic fields just west of Naples, Italy, are among the top eight emitters of volcanic carbon dioxide in the world. Since 2005, the Solfatara crater -- one of many circular ...

Phlegraean Fields, which encompasses western neighbourhoods of Naples and its suburbs, is seismically and volcanically active. Its surface has been pushed up by 1.3 metres ...

Known in English as the Phlegraean Fields, the area is home to a complex network of calderas, craters and fumaroles that combine to create a natural but deeply hostile territory of volcanic activity.