Homes evacuated in Italy after strongest quake in 40 years near supervolcano

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/homes-evacuated-earthquake-supervolcano-naples-campi-flegrei

Homes were evacuated and many people slept in their cars or on the street after the strongest earthquake in 40 years shook the area around the sprawling Campi Flegrei supervolcano close to Naples.

The 4.4-magnitude tremor in Pozzuoli, a densely populated port city, was followed by 150 quakes that were also strongly felt in Naples.

Local media reports said cracks had formed in buildings and chunks of masonry had collapsed. Schools were closed on Tuesday in Pozzuoli and a cluster of towns and districts of Naples.

“We are used to the quakes – but this one was very frightening as it was the strongest in 40 years. We could feel the ground move as we walked.”

[RazorbackExpat]

1. As someome who has experienced an 8.0 "aftershock",

I can say that a 4.4 is nothing, as long as it's over within 15 to 20 seconds.

[malaise]

2. Well as someone who never experienced an 8.0

A 4.4 and even worse a 5.6 are very scary😀

[RazorbackExpat]

4. I wasn't in Japan when the 9.0 quake hit,

but I was there for the aftershocks. An 8.0 "aftershock" threw everything off my shelves at once, like a freaking poltergeist. A 4.4 in Japan barely gets a mention in the news.

[malaise]

5. Two folks I know well were there

Strangely the younger one now has cancer. Thankfully they caught it early and she should recover

[RazorbackExpat]

7. I wonder if they were from Fukushima

because eastern Fukushima suffered the most from the explosions at the nuclear plants.

[malaise]

12. Both are Jamaicams

One lives in Tokyo with his family and the other was a PhD student not near Fukushima

[keithbvadu2]

6. This one?

The Japan earthquake in 2011 changed Earth's axis by about 17 centimeters (6.5 inches), shifting the position of Earth's figure axis towards 133 degrees east longitude12. This shift should not be confused with the north-south axis, which is offset by about 10 meters2. The earthquake also sped up Earth's rotation, resulting in a day that is about 1.8 microseconds shorter3. Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology calculated that the earthquake moved the Earth's axis by a quarter of a meter4.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=japan+earthquake+changed+earth%27s+axis&form=ANNTH1&refig=080d5d01b5184cb2bda4a8fede522c42&pc=U531&sp=1&ghc=1&lq=0&qs=SC&pq=japan+earthquake+changed+time&sc=1-29&cvid=080d5d01b5184cb2bda4a8fede522c42

[RazorbackExpat]

9. Yeah, that one

It was weird. I was a resident of Japan. but I was out of the country at the time.

[LeftInTX]

10. Earthquakes often precede eruptions. The earthquake itself is nothing, but what it could be a symptom of is.

This is a caldera too, so if it erupts, it's gonna be crazy.

[RazorbackExpat]

11. There are quite a few calderas in Japan

but they're usually not that big, certainly not like Yellowstone

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. Saw a documentary on this a few days ago.

Hundreds of thousands living inside the caldera of this monster. With Vesuvius nearby, just for good measure.

[newdayneeded]

8. Yep, i just watched a show on this

yesterday.

[malaise]

13. Brave complacent folks

I pass.