Swarm of quakes besets Italian town as supervolcano rumbles

POZZUOLI, Italy --- The talk in shops and coffee bars in Pozzuoli, a port town outside Naples, is not about soccer or politics, but of the fear that has gripped residents since a supervolcano sparked a swarm of earthquakes. Over the past weeks the government has been planning for a possible mass evacuation of tens of thousands of people who live around the vast volcanic area known as the Campi Flegrei, or Phlegraean Fields, from the ancient Greek word for burning. Sulphurous fumes escape from the surface, giving the area a surreal look and making it a magnet for tourists. Residents have become used to the smell, the fumes and the trembling. There were more than a thousand qu...Keep on reading: Swarm of quakes besets Italian town as supervolcano rumbles

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