Italy: Establish a risk map for volcanic Vesuvius

According to ANSA news agency, Italian geologists drew the first complete diagram of the risk of the volcano Vesuvius, near Napoli - the only inland volcano in Europe that erupted over the last 100 years. .

A map of a 650-square-kilometer area created by researchers at the University of Pisa and Bari "allows for the first major pre-assessment in areas at risk of volcanic impact when it is sprayed. movement " .

The map was studied and set up with the help of the Italian agency Pisan of the Institute of Geophysical and Volcanic Physics (INGV) based on a 500-year-old analysis of the lands surrounding the famous Vesuvius volcano. . It was this volcano that buried ancient Roman city of Pompeii in the year 79 AD.

According to Giovanni Zanchetta, a geologist at the University of Pisa, "this is the first step towards developing a new detailed evacuation plan."

People in Naples sometimes feel anxious about this famous volcano. Most recently, in October 2008, the whole city of Naples was buzzing and thought it was due to loud explosions coming from the volcanic region of Vesuvius.

The Napoli people hurriedly called the volcanic alarm hotline to rescue centers, police, seismic agencies . making the switchboard congested.

However, everything went back to normal when the seismic agency Italy confirmed that there was no unusual seismic activity and the giant Vesuvius was still sleeping.

The loud bangs that the residential area in Naples heard caused by two Italian F16 fighters, they accelerated to chase an unknown air intruder.

The whole city was relieved to learn that two Italian military aircraft chased after it. The intruder of his airspace was an Austrian plane on his way to support the Republic of Chad.

The panic in Naples in 2008 happened because in August 2007, US National Geographic magazine stated that the current evacuation plan would not guarantee the timely evacuation of people if "the volcano The most dangerous in the world " exploded like it did in 79 BC.

The level of anxiety among Napoli city residents has diminished after researchers and observers of volcanic Vesuvius, reportedly denying all risks.

In recent years, Napoli city officials have repeatedly made reports that Vesuvius might work again.

Recently, Italy's leading volcanic researcher Franco Barberi said, even in the worst case, the evacuation plan would allow at-risk people, volcanic effects in Naples to be evacuated. smoothly, smoothly.

Italy has created a simulation model all the possibilities of erupting volcanoes, Barberi said. The volcanic eruption has recently changed, so geologists say the volcano is inactive and can sleep for decades or centuries.

In 2003 the Naples government began to provide large amounts of money to encourage people to live near the foot of the volcano to move to a safer place, but so far only a handful of people have received this money.

Vesuvius has been active and booming about 30 times since it buried the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, killing about 2,000 people. The most serious explosion killed about 4,000 people in 1631.

There are about 1 million people living and working around the volcanic Vesuvius and at the current rate of urban expansion, the city at the foot of this volcano will increase by 200,000 by 2016.