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Scarpa, R.; Capuano, P.; Tammaro, U.; Bilham, R.
Bibliographical reference
EGU General Assembly 2012, held 22-27 April, 2012 in Vienna, Austria., p.12562
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Description
Campi Flegrei is a caldera complex located in the Campanian plain region
of southern Italy, 15 km west of the city of Naples, and forms part of
the Roman co-magmatic province which is a volcanic chain that
characterizes the western coast of the country. The Campi Flegrei
caldera was generated by several collapses produced by strong explosive
eruptions. The main caldera at Campi Flegrei is 12 - 15km across and its
rim is thought to have been formed during the catastrophic eruption,
occurred 39 ky ago ca. which produced a deposit referred to as the
Campanian Ignimbrite. Campi Flegrei area periodically experiences
significant unrest episodes which include ground deformations, the
so-called "bradisismo", recorded both by marine terraces, archaeological
record and harbour structures. Following the last eruption (Monte Nuovo,
1538) a general subsidence has been interrupted by episodes of uplift,
the most recent of which occurred in 1970-72 and 1982-84. In the past
decade subsidence has been arrested and has been replaced by
intermittent episodes of inflation with short time duration and various
maximum amplitude. They occurred in 1989, 1994, 2000, 2004, 2005-06,
2009 and 2011 with duration of few months and maximum amplitude ranging
between 3 and 11 cm. Since 2008 an array of water-pipe tiltmeters with
lengths between 28 m and 278 m in tunnels on the flanks of the region of
maximum inflation has been installed to avoid problems common to the
traditional tiltmeters. The tiltmeters record inflation episodes upon
which are superimposed local load tides, with amplitudes roughly an
order of magnitude greater than the solid Earth body tides. In addition
to the tides, the tiltmeters record a line spectrum of seiches in the
Bay of Naples and in the Tyrrenian sea. We use data recorded by three
tide gauges in the Bay of Pozzuoli to compare water pipe data with sea
level to extract astronomical tidal components and seiches periods
particularly between 20 minutes and 56 minutes that could constitute
local loading frequencies recorded clearly by tide gauges and
tiltmeters. The comparison between these two kind of data enables a more
sensitive definition of the low level uplift with an accuracy of 1% for
nanoradiant tilts in the period range 10 minutes to 10 hours with a long
term tilt stability of approximately 0.1 µradian/yr