Pozzuoli (Naples), 23 May 2024 – It is endless fear. New strong shock earthquake to the Phlegraean Fields, at 8.28 yesterday morning, then swarm until the evening. The seismograph records magnitude 3.6 with an epicenter in the Gulf of Pozzuoli and a depth of 2.8 km. This time the radius of action touches the island of Procida. The children are already at school, the school principals make them leave quickly, evacuate the institutions while the mayor Dino Ambrosino puts an end to lessons. The ordeal of bradyseism continues. People, exhausted by sleepless nights and terror, look at the institutions as if they were expecting a miracle, help, assistance. After the summit at Palazzo Chigi with Prime Minister Meloni, the red zone limited to three Municipalities (Pozzuoli, Bacoli and Monte di Procida) and yellow for the other areas of the Campi Flegrei is reconfirmed.
Some of the tents set up by the Civil Protection at the port of Pozzuoli (Ansa)
“The Government’s intention – says the Minister of Civil Protection, Nello Musumeci – is to commit new resources in the red zone for public infrastructures starting from schools and roads. We think that 4000 buildings they are exposed to risk And 1250 at high risk and that 500 million are needed to make homes safe. Sismabonus? I rule it out, we will find other solutions. I can certainly make a promise: the Government will ban new buildings in the bradyseism area.”
Finally, an announcement: “We are working with the Prefecture, with the Municipalities and with the Region to define an evacuation plan which remains in the drawer but, if necessary, must be immediately realized and implemented”. “We must be ready for anything”, echoes the governor Vincenzo De Luca. Ready to erect tent city and strengthen escape routes with entirely new roads, given that the existing ones end up in bottlenecks. “We have unlocked an important intervention on tunnel in Pozzuolibut beyond this we must achieve new things that have nothing to do with the old commissionerate, also adapting the interventions to the current urgencies and working above all on the intermediate area between Pozzuoli and Bagnoli, where we must implement something new and urgent “.
The checks on the vulnerability of buildings they are progressing, albeit slowly. “At the moment – explained the head of the regional civil protection Italo Giulivo – 836 requests have been presented by private individuals for the inspection of the buildings. So far 182 have been carried out. Following these checks, 37 eviction orders have been issued”. If this is the trend, considering that in the end there will be more than 2000 requests for verification of the static vulnerability of private buildings presented in the Phlegraean area, it is feared that the orders for the eviction of the buildings could be at least 200-300 with a thousand displaced persons (currently there are already 250).
That the situation remains dramatic can also be understood from another sign. After it clearance of the women’s prisonit’s up to everyoneSanta Maria delle Grazie hospital of Pozzuoli, which is located in the bradyseism area. Ordinary and scheduled hospitalizations have been blocked, discharges have started in the wards, always with ordinary beds. Of the 208 beds, around seventy will remain, only for emergencies and cancer patients, which will in any case be guaranteed. Everything must happen within a week.
