>Geologists and volcanologists who study the volcano readily concede that Mount Vesuvius is overdue for an explosion [source: Fraser]. For that reason, the Vesuvius Observatory monitors seismic activity, gas emissions and other indicators 24 hours a day to know at the earliest point when it may blow.
>Considered one of the world's most dangerous, it is also the only active volcano on Europe's mainland [source: Lorenzi]. Nevertheless, 600,000 people live in the 18 towns at its base that comprise the "red zone."
>The red zone denotes the populated area that would bear the brunt of an eruption. Directly in the line of fire, the 9-mile (12-kilometer) radius of people stand little chance of survival when Vesuvius explodes again [source: Lorenzi].
>Because of the imminent -- and unpredictable -- threat, the Italian government has devised an evacuation plan to clear out the red zone 72 hours ahead of an impending eruption. Beginning in 2004, the government also set up a program to pay people $46,000 (30,000E) to relocate outside of the zone -- though it has had relatively few takers [source: Lorenzi]. Experts warn that emergency plans should also include nearby Naples since an explosion could send dangerous burning ash and pumice as far as 12 miles (20 kilometers) [source: Fraser].
>The last time Vesuvius activated was in 1944, causing minor damage and killing 26 people. New research has shown that the mountain probably will not act as kindly next time. For starters, Mount Vesuvius sits on top of a layer of magma deep in the earth that measures 154 square miles (400 square kilometers) [source: Noble]. That's a lot of magma -- Kilaeua Volcano is probably the most active volcano in the world, with 34 eruptions since 1952 [source: U.S. Geological Survey], but compared to Vesuvius, which has erupted around 30 times since 79 A.D. [source: Than], its magma supply is much smaller. Topping it off, scientists expect that the next eruption will be an incredibly forceful explosion, termed plinean, marked by flying rock and ash at speeds of up to almost 100 miles per hour (160 kph).
>To summarize, if Mount Vesuvius erupts today, it wouldn't be a pretty picture. Given its potential, Vesuvius could endanger more than 3 million people and wipe out the city of Naples [source: Than].
>The Italian government has stated multiple times that for such an event they "would not be ready" and hundreds of thousands up one to millions lives may perish if not warned in time.
it's a big pizza oven and you all are the pepperonis
Thomas Kelly
Oh fucking finally. We can get rid of Naples
Nathan Turner
Better get on your tippy toes.
When is a volcano not ready to erupt these days it's like living with an abusive father they're ready to blow at a moments notice.
Liam Price
>all those dead terroni
Benjamin Hughes
What would the regional environmental effects be? Could we be talking weather patterns changing for a time?
Joseph Phillips
If Vesuvius and Yellowstone both went up at similar times to each other, that would be great. Oh and that bastard one in Iceland that caused problems a few years ago
Logan Harris
Nigga that's in the south of Italy.
Who the fuck cares?
Landon King
Lol the Italian bank is the next to fall if this goes off it would speed things along
Lincoln Kelly
But if you closed your eyes would it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
You know, because Pompeii is already shit :^)))
Eli Lopez
Last three digits in my post number is how many days until super eruption
Gavin Taylor
why do you have such a picture on your pc? fuck off
Robert Rogers
We should make /vesuvius/ general threads like we did with earthwuake watch. That way when we get to 70 threads and everyone eventually forgets about it, i wont be disappointed when nothing blows
Andrew King
Maybe if you weren't such a little shit, he wouldn't have to hit you so much. Fucking leaf. If you were my kid, I'd beat you just for being Canadian.
Austin Jones
Possible solution to refugee crisis?
Tyler Hall
Hope the winds are blowing out of the south for Germany's sake.
Easton Sanders
If it's as quick as Pompei and Hercolanum there won't be any refugees and the land will be barren for years to come.
Also all flights in Europe and North Africa will be canceled.
Ryan Jackson
a huge lolcano eruption can fuck up the entire planet. Last big one was Tambora (Indonesia) somewhere in the 1810s. In the years following the eruption there was no summer in Europe, because of ashes in the atmosphere and stuff. Crops failed, many people died of hunger.
Yellowstone will be bigger than Tambora. We're all fucked if that thing blows tbqh senpai.
Josiah Flores
Kek who was in that last Volcano Tread?
Meme Magic confirmed a Volcano Happening
Aiden Peterson
You can send that 8000 refugees you just took in there to burn
Nice thinking on the capture of them
Robert Cruz
interesting but considering Italy has a thing about persecuting scientists for failing to predict natural disasters, they may be prone to crying wolf:
Is this some kinda joke like Mexican intellectuals?
Joseph Phillips
Is this the happening Kek has been building up to since it has been quite for the past weeks
Christian Butler
>some third world shithole education
Austin James
Says the guy using radio signals to access the internet.
Xavier Morales
LAVALI LAVALI LAVALI COL FUOCO DAI VESUVIO LAVALI COL FUOCO
Isaiah Bennett
>Says the guy using radio signals to access the internet. wifi?
Angel Nelson
Italy have top tier science you retard
Zachary Bell
Its not a warning, its a blessing.
Praise Kek.
Lincoln Campbell
I was hoping to be the first to make that joke and was very surprised to see that it took so long
Colton Jones
You wouldn't be able to use a computer without Italian scientists. >Dominican Republic Jesus are you even self aware? your country only produces flabby prostitutes
Eli Cruz
SAVE THE PIZZA!!!!
Colton Thompson
GUESS WHERE I LIVE? fug :DDDD
Hunter Evans
>Italian scientists
is that like Mexican intellectuals ?
Juan Diaz
Yeaaa... If you can explode and take a milion italians with you.. that'd would be great.
Asher Lewis
>literally getting roasted
JUST
It will erupt at the same time as Yellowstone
Parker Taylor
If things become bad, you can always ask us for help - if you nuke it, eruption can be prevented.
Angel Flores
august 14th
Luis Green
off the top of my head
Galilei Fermi Marconi Toricelli Galvani Volta
Jacob Hall
I can't be the only one seeing a frog face with those smoke cloud outlines
Liam Perry
why the fuck did you dagos move back and build more towns on god's firey asshole
Jonathan Johnson
Tsar bomba yellowstone pls ruskibro
Brayden Peterson
Please allahu snackbar my shit up volcano.
Jeremiah Cook
>nature taking initiative to rid us of camorra The major con is that Naples' refugees will flow in nearby regions and I live in one of them.
Robert Allen
The Titans will awaken soon.
All those people are already dead.
The time of the Olympians is over.
Now is the time of Titans and man.
Ian Jenkins
>tfw Vesuvius was Mount Doom all along Italy is Mordor and African migrants are its Orcs.
Luis Campbell
The thing has very good land, and there never was a massive Pompeii-like erution since then.
Also I live just outside the yellow zone, max I can get is a ash
Carter Carter
da vinci too
Caleb Nelson
What else can you expect when you know
>it's getting hot in here, isn't it?
Juan Cox
I kind of wished Australia had volcanoes. Australia is so fucken safe from volcanoes, that our soil is one of the oldest in the world, and thus it has no nutrients, its basically shit soil. I envy countries with volcanoes, theyre like the natures super fertilisers. I cant even grow anything on my land because of shitty clay soil is everywhere, whilst Italy which is the size of victoria can support 70 million people. Volcanoes are like a goldmine for nature, they create mountains which attracts rain, they bring essential micrnutirients to the soil, create new lands. Thats why Australia despite being larger than Europe cant even support 30 million people. I wish there was a way to create artifical volcanoes in inland Australia.
Grayson Richardson
Oh shit! Britain is like The Shire, we don't give a shit about the world outside our borders and just want to grow crops and drink ale.
Gavin Clark
The real problem is if the Flegreans Field erupt, they're as powerful as Yellowstone and would holocaust the entire European continent.
Joshua Adams
Why don't you guys go around the world "helping" to clean the volcanic ash while you bring tons of that ash?
Carson Morgan
>Italian scientists Hey Guido! -Si, Pepe? I just-a discover the perfecto recipee for the a-spicy meatball! -Mama, mia!
Nolan Moore
Kek blessed Tolkien with visions to come of the fall of Europa. We would be wise to heed his words and save the west.
Luke Garcia
>Italian scientists
Joseph Gomez
See you down the Green Dragon later, mate?
Anthony Barnes
This. "Don't worry, Allah will protect you from Vesuvius."
Matthew Powell
Shut up and pay debts, you fucking spic
Evan Myers
repent
Alexander Jenkins
Does the ring represent independence?
Gabriel Edwards
>yfw refugees cant swim in lava
Nathan Moore
Where the fuck is the dominican republic? Do you have to house share and one guy rides the electrobike to make electricity for computer while the other surfs the net?
Colton Flores
Oh spelling mistake there. Serfs the net*
Isaiah Butler
>payng denbts
Grayson Hill
Yes, Italy is a Romania tier country. They just weren't under Russian occupation for half a century.
Joshua Kelly
It's not that they can't swim, they just hate getting a wash.
Nathan Fisher
not happening.
it's just that they get jailed if something happens and they didn't know it
they need to say this all the time to keep their jobs.
back to the DNC threads, everyone, this is also bait
Isaac Walker
>People from Naples are literal trash >you can't nuke them >you can't gas them >you can't deport them >you can't sell their land to a foreign nation THANK YOU BASED VESUVIO FOR FIXING THE PROBLEM
Ethan Cox
> implying ancient scientists matter
Muslims invented optics and Algebra, now look at them.
Kevin Martin
What now eurocucks
Lucas Hall
third world shitholes in full resentment mode I see
Levi Myers
Yellowstone
Ryan Scott
Prepare for 80 million guido refugees, cuck.
Jose Taylor
Can you name a famous intellectual born in Puerto Rico?
Hudson Sanchez
When the volcano erupts it will rebury Pompeii again in ash. Time for Floyd
The chances that these and Vesuvius will blow up together are very high.
RIP Italy.
Justin Reed
Mate that land could become permanent lava and for me it would be a bright side anyway. I just want Naples to cease to exist
Nathan Garcia
i'd kiss the feet of every snooki that landed on our shores.
Brody Adams
When will you go back to Mongolia?
David Collins
>Italian scientists believe Vesuvius is about to erupt Hopefully it will happen in the middle of the night
Joseph Watson
You do realise your cuntry would get a hit to it's economy that might lead to stagnation for years to come?
Ethan Bell
...
Wyatt Rodriguez
Are you implying there is a single person in Naples that works or pay taxes?
Jordan Gray
>last three digits
Bruh, my dubs will decide when, IN HOURS
Jace Davis
Why are Italians so stupid?
>builds Pompeii right next to an active volcano >volcano erupts >Pompeii is no more >doesn't learn from it and builds Naples in the same place
genius
Justin Reyes
/thread
Eli Ross
The land around a volcano is the most fertile.
Gavin Peterson
If Italy has similar services as Japan does, it'd be quite the memes.
Isaac Nelson
>the volcano is long overdue for an explosion Okay but how is that proof that people should be worried? By studying seismic activity and gas emissions we can know when its going to happen ahead of time. So again I ask, what is the point of this?
Lots of volcanos are long overdue for an explosion that will be far more devastating than Vesuvius (yellowstone for example). Nice fear-mongering u fagget.
