Italy's Campi Flegrei volcano is now experiencing an increased rate of uplift, translating to 36 centimeters or 14.2 inches a year of land rise. This increase began on February 15th and just led to a surprisingly damaging magnitude 4.4 earthquake west of Naples that damaged multiple structures. Today's video breaks through the misinformation to give an honest analysis about the current state of the Campi Flegrei volcano through the perspective of a geologist. Thumbnail Photo Credit: This work "CampiFlegrei51", is a derivative of a photo (resized, cropped, text overlay, image color saturation increased, image white point decreased, image mirrored horizontally (left became right & right became left), added GeologyHub made graphics (the image border & the GeologyHub logo)) from "Italy, Solfatara (Campi Flegrei)", by: Daniel Enchev, Epsilon68 - Street and Travel Photography, danielenchev, 2016, Posted on Flickr, Flickr account link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/danielenchev/, Photo link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/danielenchev/32701158154, CC BY 2.0. "CampiFlegrei51" is used & licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Youtube.com/GeologyHub A special thanks to the EarthquakeSim YouTube channel for granting me permission to use clips of his footage! Video Sources from the EarthquakeSim YouTube channel: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTq4vNNgkNk Subscribe to EarthquakeSim at: https://www.youtube.com/@EarthquakeSim If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at [email protected] and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode CC BY 3.0 NZ: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/legalcode CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Sources/Citations: [1] INGV [2] U.S. Geological Survey [3] VEIs, dates/years, composition, tephra layer name, DRE estimates, and bulk tephra volume estimates for volcanic eruptions shown in this video which were assigned a VEI 4 or larger and are not from the Aira Caldera are sourced from the LaMEVE database (British Geological Survey © UKRI), https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/vogripa/view/controller.cfc?method=lameve, Used with Permission [4] YouTube Creative Commons, "Visita al Vulcano Solfatara", By: Vito Simi de Burgis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFTFw7lhVZk, CC BY 3.0 license [5] Amoruso, Antonella & Crescentini, Luca & D'Antonio, M. & Acocella, Valerio. (2017). Thermally-assisted Magma Emplacement Explains Restless Calderas. Scientific Reports. 7. 10.1038/s41598-017-08638-y., CC BY 4.0 [6] Di Vito, M., Acocella, V., Aiello, G. et al. Magma transfer at Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy) before the 1538 AD eruption. Sci Rep 6, 32245 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep32245, CC BY 4.0. [7] Giudicepietro Flora, Macedonio Giovanni, Martini Marcello, A Physical Model of Sill Expansion to Explain the Dynamics of Unrest at Calderas with Application to Campi Flegrei, Frontiers in Earth Science, Volume 5, 2017, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2017.00054, DOI: 10.3389/feart.2017.00054, ISSN: 2296-6463, CC BY 4.0. [8] Kilburn, C.R.J., Carlino, S., Danesi, S. et al. Potential for rupture before eruption at Campi Flegrei caldera, Southern Italy. Commun Earth Environ 4, 190 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00842-1, CC BY 4.0 [9] VEIs, dates/years, composition, tephra layer name, DRE estimates, and bulk tephra volume estimates for volcanic eruptions shown in this video which are not the Campi Flegrei volcano and which were assigned a VEI 4 or larger are sourced from the LaMEVE database (British Geological Survey © UKRI), https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/vogripa/view/controller.cfc?method=lameve, Used with Permission 0:00 Campi Flegrei Volcano 0:15 Earthquake Damage 1:23 Earthquake Amplification 3:12 Current Magma Intrusion 5:03 Campi Flegrei Cycle