As I was saying: pay attention

 

Just a couple of posts ago, I featured the new Pompeiian discovery of two victims of the eruption, found in a home, with some coins they never got to spend and jewelry that they couldn't wear again. 

In that article, I counseled that if the Naples region starts rockin' and rollin' with volcanic temblors, that would indicate the prudence of going to visit your Italian aunt in Bergamo. 

In this Washington Post article, the reasons for relocating the domicile are described.

Europe’s most dangerous volcano rumbles, and Italians weigh the risk

"A number of scientists are warning of a possible tipping point — but no one more so than Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, a senior researcher with Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) who is engaged in a public fight with the agency he serves, arguing it is not taking the threat seriously enough. He describes a worst-case scenario in which a deep fissure opens in the earth, spewing a mushroom cloud of noxious gas, superheated ash and pyroclastic material. At night, emissions would be wreathed in lightning bolts. The view of the coastline would be shrouded by a deadly black veil. In the aftermath, white-gray ash and rock would blanket the land.

Even a significantly smaller but still strong eruption, he said, “could devastate the entire metropolitan area of ​​Naples, with its 3 million inhabitants.”

“The pressure could release like a bomb,” he said, standing under the scorching sun and gazing down at a massive crater lake formed during the last significant Phlegraean eruption in 1538."

However, according to what I can find out about the 1538 eruption, a crater lake did not form during that eruption -- a cinder cone named Monte Nuovo did, and it also reduced the size of nearby Lucrine Lake (Lago di Lucrino). So I'm not sure what the writer is talking about, but he could mean the nearby Lake Avernus (Lago d'Averno), which is the nearest big volcanic lake around.

So a bit of an error there. But still, the whole region could go boom! or BOOM!, and that would constitute a major problem. 

Keep watching that seismometer.  And it's probably a good idea to keep an eye on Vesuvius, too.

Monte Nuovo: