Ingv conducts four-day checks in Vulcano’s Levante Bay area amid mud pools and boiling sea.
In Vulcano, in the area of the Levante bay between the closed mud basin due to gas risk and the boiling sea, new checks by Ingv for four days. These fall within the scope of the project Dynamic Planet – Wundervul (Toward a wider understanding of Vulcano): these are a set of geophysical and geochemical measurements carried out simultaneously by various research groups from the INGV sections of Palermo, Catania (Oe), Naples (Oo), Rome (Ont) and Rome 1.
Researchers measure CO2 flow from the surface of the mud basin and soil, measure CO2 and H2S concentrations in the air, measure soil temperature, infrasound measurements through a mini-network of acoustic sensors associated with a velocimeter, submarine degassing measurements with a hydrophone, 2D electrical resistivity measurements. A weather station has also been installed in the area, with an anemometer.
“This will make it possible – explain the volcanologists – to create an integrated geodatabase of data related to this specific area of the island, very crowded in summer and therefore exposed to various dangerous phenomena.”
Vulcano, nell’area della baia di Levante tra pozza dei fanghi e mare che bolle controlli per quattro giorni dell’Ingv
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