In the red zone of the awakening Phlegraean Fields, the most dangerous volcano in Europe, 2,000-year-old ruins are rising from the earth, thrust upward by hydrothermal force.
Residents are now keeping emergency bags packed, preparing for larger quakes, or worse, an eruption some experts fear could prove devastating.
The crisis is escalating a debate within Italy's scientific community about the extent of the threat from the 8-mile-wide monster pockmarked with more than two dozen craters.
An eruption could range from the kind of limited burst that upended a boardwalk in Yellowstone National Park last month to something catastrophic.
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