Scientists Just Warned That This Supervolcano Under Europe Is Closer to Eruption Than We Thought

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Everyone talks about Yellowstone.

[00:00:03]Nobody talks about the super volcano that 8 million people are living directly on top of, right?

[00:00:08]Now, Campi Flegrei the Flegrean Fields sits under the city of Naples in Italy. It is not a mountain. It is an 8-mi wide underground crater and over half a million people live inside it without knowing it. Since 2005, the ground has been rising by 1.4 m. In June 2025, it produced the strongest earthquake scientists have ever recorded there. Ah, new study published just days ago by University College London concluded the rock above the magma chamber is being stretched to near breaking point. If nobody told you about this, subscribe to this channel. We cover the stories the news is too distracted to report. Italian authorities have marked a red zone around the crater. Over half a million people would need to be evacuated before any eruption. The director of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics said there are no countermeasures to protect yourself from the pyroclastic flow. The last time Campi Flegrei fully erupted 39,000 years ago, it covered all of Europe and Russia in ash and plunged global temperatures into a volcanic winter.

[00:01:20]Scientists are not saying it will erupt tomorrow, but they are watching it every single hour of every single day and the red phone at the Naples Observatory connects directly to Rome. It is tested twice a day.

[00:01:35]Comment below. Did you know this volcano existed?