Swarm of quakes besets Italian town as supervolcano rumbles

FILE PHOTO: Boats are seen at the harbour in Rione Terra, in Pozzuoli, Italy, October 10, 2023. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca/File Photo

POZZUOLI, Italy (Reuters) - The talk in shops and coffee bars in Pozzuoli, a port town outside Naples, is not about soccer or politics, but of the fear that has gripped residents since a supervolcano sparked a swarm of earthquakes.

Over the past weeks the government has been planning for a possible mass evacuation of tens of thousands of people who live around the vast volcanic area known as the Campi Flegrei, or Phlegraean Fields, from the ancient Greek word for burning.