Open AccessLooking inside Mt.Vesuvius
Author(s) -
Gasparini P.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/98eo00165
Subject(s) - volcano , volcanology , seismology , geography , silence , geology , physical geography , physics , acoustics
Italy's Mt.Vesuvius has been slumbering for a long time, but its silence could preface an eruption with potentially disastrous effects for 600,000 people living on the volcano's slopes. To assess the scenario of the next eruption, the National Group of Volcanology (GNV) of the Italian National Council of Researches (CNR) has fostered research aimed at mitigating eruption risk to the densely populated area. In this framework, researchers have gathered high‐resolution seismic tomography data to better understand the internal structure of Mt. Vesuvius. The experiments were carried out during the last 4 years.