Aerial shot of Mount Vesuvius, 9 km east of Naples, Italy Tags:Europe 7 comments It’s the Earth’s zit! Naples or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Vesuvius [Around 800k people live around the Vesuvius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesuvius_red_zone?wprov=sfla1), the most densely populated volcanic region in the world. And the volcano is still active, last eruption was in 1944. Just to the west of Mount Vesuvius lies a supervolcano composed of 24 craters, named the Phlegraean Fields. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegraean_Fields [Satellite photo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiversity/en/2/27/Campi_Flegrei_caldera.jpg) [Relief map](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Phlegraean_Fields_Relief_Map%2C_SRTM-1.jpg) [Relief map 2](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Micol-Todesco/publication/236631265/figure/fig1/AS:299455367663623@1448407131536/The-Phlegrean-Fields-caldera-and-its-major-collapsing-structures-Campanian-Ignimbrite.png) All those people living there. This is something i still don’t understand. How people keep living in the way of imminent disaster. Neapolitans: “What could go wrong?” Pliny the Younger: “I’ve got bad news for you.” r/dontputyourdickinthat probably Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment.
[Around 800k people live around the Vesuvius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesuvius_red_zone?wprov=sfla1), the most densely populated volcanic region in the world. And the volcano is still active, last eruption was in 1944.
Just to the west of Mount Vesuvius lies a supervolcano composed of 24 craters, named the Phlegraean Fields. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegraean_Fields [Satellite photo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiversity/en/2/27/Campi_Flegrei_caldera.jpg) [Relief map](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Phlegraean_Fields_Relief_Map%2C_SRTM-1.jpg) [Relief map 2](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Micol-Todesco/publication/236631265/figure/fig1/AS:299455367663623@1448407131536/The-Phlegrean-Fields-caldera-and-its-major-collapsing-structures-Campanian-Ignimbrite.png)
All those people living there. This is something i still don’t understand. How people keep living in the way of imminent disaster.
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It’s the Earth’s zit!
Naples or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Vesuvius
[Around 800k people live around the Vesuvius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesuvius_red_zone?wprov=sfla1), the most densely populated volcanic region in the world. And the volcano is still active, last eruption was in 1944.
Just to the west of Mount Vesuvius lies a supervolcano composed of 24 craters, named the Phlegraean Fields.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegraean_Fields
[Satellite photo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiversity/en/2/27/Campi_Flegrei_caldera.jpg)
[Relief map](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Phlegraean_Fields_Relief_Map%2C_SRTM-1.jpg)
[Relief map 2](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Micol-Todesco/publication/236631265/figure/fig1/AS:299455367663623@1448407131536/The-Phlegrean-Fields-caldera-and-its-major-collapsing-structures-Campanian-Ignimbrite.png)
All those people living there.
This is something i still don’t understand. How people keep living in the way of imminent disaster.
Neapolitans: “What could go wrong?”
Pliny the Younger: “I’ve got bad news for you.”
r/dontputyourdickinthat probably