Town abandoned for more than 50 years due to false alarm

Decades ago, a series of events caused the residents of Rione Terra to lose the courage to live here. Rione Terra and the Pozzuoli region are both located in the Phlegraean Fields, an area with about 20 volcanic craters on the verge of eruption. This is considered the most dangerous active volcanic region in Europe. About 3,900 years ago, a major eruption in this area sent ash as far as Russia, causing a "volcanic winter" and a drop in global temperatures.

In the Pozzuoli crater, people still see the phenomenon of "slow seismicity" as the rising magma causes the ground to swell and collapse over time. Sometimes people feel like something is boiling underground. The liquid magma seeps into the ground, causing underground rocks to rise and the terrain to crack. On the worst days, this process creates hundreds of low-intensity earthquakes, and people can hear "rumbling underground".

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