The magma within the Campi Flegrei supervolcano just outside of Naples is stirring once again, raising fears of an imminent cataclysmic eruption that would annihilate the town of Pozzuoli and spew toxic ash across Europe as well as causing temperatures to drop globally, NPR reports.
“Two of the most recent earthquakes are the strongest we’ve ever seen,” said Giovanni Macedonio, the director of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Naples. Quakes in March and June this year caused by the Campi Flegrei forced people “to evacuate and there are tens of families that can’t return to their homes because of the damage.”