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Keywords

  • Campi Flegrei
  • uplift
  • volcanic activity

Index Terms

  • Geodesy and Gravity: Integrations of techniques
  • Volcanology: Volcano monitoring
  • Volcanology: Hydrothermal systems
  • Volcanology: Calderas
  • Volcanology: Volcanic hazards and risks

Abstract

Renewed ground uplift at Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy): New insight on magmatic processes and forecast

C. Troise

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia–Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy

G. De Natale

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia–Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy

F. Pingue

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia–Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy

F. Obrizzo

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia–Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy

P. De Martino

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia–Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy

U. Tammaro

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia–Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy

E. Boschi

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia–Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy

Campi Flegrei caldera, including the extremely urbanised city of Naples, is the most risky volcanic area in the World. The last eruption in the area (1538) occurred at the end of some decades of ground uplift, superimposed to secular subsidence. During the last four decades, it experienced a huge uplift phase, reaching about 3.5 m in 1985, when a subsidence phase started. Recent geodetic data demonstrate that such a subsidence phase has terminated, and a new uplift episode started in November 2004, with a low but increasing rate leading to about 0.04 m of uplift till the end of October 2006. A new indicator, based on the monitoring of maximum horizontal to vertical displacement ratio with continuous GPS, indicates that this uplift is likely to be associated with input of magmatic fluids from a shallow magma chamber. The method is promising to monitor magma intrusion processes, at this and other volcanoes.

Received 23 October 2006; accepted 13 December 2006; published 1 February 2007.

Citation: Troise, C., G. De Natale, F. Pingue, F. Obrizzo, P. De Martino, U. Tammaro, and E. Boschi (2007), Renewed ground uplift at Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy): New insight on magmatic processes and forecast, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L03301, doi:10.1029/2006GL028545.

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