scientists explore sunken craters in the Mediterranean

The world is facing a state of ocean emergency. This is what the Secretary General of the United Nations said on Monday, June 27. On the agenda of this ocean summit, the threat of tsunamis in the Mediterranean. It is likely that an earthquake or volcanic activity will produce it. Off Sicily, not far from Stromboli, scientists are collecting valuable data at a depth of 70 meters. Eruptions are permanent there. The gas comes directly from the bowels of the earth and creates sort of curtains of bubbles.

Scientists have recently measured a worrying increase in underwater activity. This instability raises fears of a violent eruption and potentially a tsunami. By diving scientists have proven that the underwater volcanoes observed are linked to the same source of magma as Stromboli, the most impressive of Italian volcanoes.