Posted originally on Mar 14, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
COMMENT from Italy: Dear Mr Armstrong,
I just read your topic on volcanoes and cooling weather Please note:
Etna is erupting, slowly Stromboli had a small eruption last year with earthquake On 13march on Campi Flegrei, “caldara” where Vesuvio is Located, had an earthquake of magnitudo 4.1
Thus it seems all italian volcanoes have signs of “life”…: Etna, Stromboli, Vesuvio, Vulcano
Campi Flegrei: il terremoto del 13 marzo 2025 (Md 4.4) e il punto sul bradisismo
Alle ore 01:25 italiane di ieri, 13/03/2025, la Sala di Monitoraggio dell’Osservatorio Vesuviano – INGV ha localizzato un evento sismico di magnitudo preliminare Md 4.4±0.3, nell’area dei Campi Flegrei, lungo la costa del Golfo di Pozzuoli (La Pietra – Dazio) e molto vicino al popoloso quartiere di Bagnoli (Figura 1).
Figura 1 – Mappa della sismicità dei Campi Flegrei tra il 6 marzo e il 13 marzo 2025: sono riportati solo i terremoti di magnitudo M ≥ 1.0. La dimensione dei simboli è proporzionale alla magnitudo, come indicato nel riquadro in basso a destra. La stella e il cerchio turchese indicano l’evento di Md 4.4 del 13 marzo 2025.
Il terremoto che ha fatto vibrare l’intera area metropolitana dei Campi Flegrei e molti quartieri della città di Napoli è avvenuto ad una profondità di circa 2.5 km. Da quel momento è iniziato uno sciame sismico, conclusosi nella notte tra il 13 e il 14 marzo, con un totale di 44 eventi con magnitudo ≥ 0 di cui solo 9 con magnitudo Md tra 1.0 e 1.7.
Come già riportato in molte altre occasioni, la sismicità dell’area dei Campi Flegrei è strettamente correlata alla dinamica vulcanica e in particolare alle fasi di deformazione e sollevamento del suolo (parte del fenomeno noto come bradisismo). L’attuale crisi bradisismica, iniziata nel 2005, ha finora prodotto un sollevamento massimo di circa 140 cm nell’area centrale della caldera, misurato in una piccola area a 500 metri a sud del Rione Terra (Pozzuoli).
Nel passato si sono verificate altre fasi di sollevamento del suolo accompagnate da sismicità, le più recenti delle quali nei periodi 1969-1972 e 1982-1984. I terremoti di maggiore energia nel corso di quelle crisi furono registrati il 4 ottobre 1983 e il 14 marzo 1984 entrambi con una magnitudo Md pari a 4.0. E vale la pena ricordare che la seconda fu caratterizzata da una sismicità talmente intensa da provocare gravi danni agli edifici di Pozzuoli ed una parziale evacuazione dei suoi abitanti.
Durante l’attuale crisi bradisismica, i maggiori eventi sismici sono stati registrati il 27 settembre 2023 (Md 4.2), il 2 ottobre 2023 (Md 4.0), il 20 maggio 2024 (Md 4.4) e il 26 luglio 2024 (Md 4.0), le cui localizzazioni sono mostrate in Figura 2, insieme con quelle degli eventi di magnitudo M ≥ 3.0, a partire dal 1983. Occorre sottolineare che seppure negli ultimi 10 anni sia stato osservato un aumento del numero e dell’energia degli eventi registrati, essi mostrano in grandissima parte (circa il 97%), una magnitudo ≤ 1.0.
Figura 2 – Mappa degli epicentri localizzati dalla Rete Sismica dell’Osservatorio Vesuviano dal 1983 ad oggi, incluso l’evento del 13 marzo 2025 (stella turchese), relativa ai terremoti di magnitudo M ≥ 3.0. A destra della mappa, le proiezioni degli ipocentri orientate nord-sud; in basso, orientate est-ovest (il cerchio turchese indica l’evento di Md 4.4 del 13 marzo 2025. La dimensione dei simboli è proporzionale alla magnitudo, come indicato nel riquadro in basso a destra.
La situazione attuale (febbraio – marzo 2025)
Nelle ultime tre settimane, la velocità media di sollevamento del suolo nella zona di massima deformazione in prossimità del Rione Terra a Pozzuoli, si è attestata intorno ad un valore preliminare di ~30±5 mm/mese (come indicato nel bollettino settimanale dei Campi Flegrei, 3-9 marzo 2025). Un esame dei dati presenti nel Bollettino mensile di febbraio evidenzia che: a) nei mesi precedenti, da agosto 2024, la stessa zona, al centro della caldera, aveva mostrato un tasso di sollevamento medio di ~10 mm/mese; b) solo durante la seconda metà di febbraio 2025 tale valore era salito a ~15±5 mm/mese (Figura 3).
Figura 3 – (a) Serie temporale delle variazioni in quota della stazione GNSS della stazione del Rione Terra, Pozzuoli (RITE) dal 01/01/2024 al 10/03/2025; (b) Variazione di lunghezza della baseline SOLO-ARFE (Solfatara – Arco Felice) dal 01/01/2024 al 10/03/2025.
Nel quadro generale in cui deformazioni e sismicità ai Campi Flegrei continuano a essere strettamente associate, il terremoto di magnitudo Md 4.4 di ieri si inserisce in un contesto di tasso di sollevamento in rapido aumento che invece non era stato rilevato in occasione dell’evento di pari magnitudo del 20 maggio 2024. Quell’evento era infatti avvenuto in condizioni di deformazione progressiva e continua, a testimonianza del fatto che non c’è relazione diretta tra velocità di sollevamento del suolo e magnitudo e che, se fosse necessario ribadirlo, non è possibile stabilire né quando i terremoti arrivano né quale intensità avranno.
Grazie alla recente implementazione e al completamento di una rete accelerometrica, che comprende sia stazioni a terra sia stazioni installate sul fondo del Golfo di Pozzuoli, da alcuni mesi e in occasione di eventi sismici rilevanti, si pubblicano mappe di scuotimento che riportano i valori delle accelerazioni del suolo, espresse in percentuale dell’accelerazione di gravità. Tali mappe sono prodotte per diverse zone dell’area flegrea e ne è stata realizzata una per l’evento di magnitudo Md 4.4 di ieri (Figura 4), su cui si osservano valori di accelerazione molto alti, tra 0.6 e 1 g (dove g è l’accelerazione di gravità), soprattutto verso il bordo della Solfatara e Pozzuoli, verso mare e verso est, in direzione della collina di Posillipo e della città di Napoli.
Pur con taluni caratteri di direzionalità, il terremoto di ieri è stato risentito in una vasta area che va da Bacoli a ovest fino ai quartieri orientali di Napoli in prossimità dell’area vesuviana, e in vari Comuni presenti nei quadranti NE-N-NW dell’area napoletana, fino a Giugliano e Marano. Lo si evince con una certa facilità dalla mappa dei risentimenti ottenuta grazie ai dati raccolti attraverso i questionari di “Hai sentito il terremoto?” che mostrano risentimenti stimati, al momento, fino al V grado MCS (Figura 5).
Figura 5 – Mappa dei risentimenti ottenuta grazie ai dati raccolti attraverso i questionari di “Hai sentito il terremoto?”, aggiornamento del 14/03/2025.
Eruzione imminente?
Sebbene da molti mesi si continuano a registrare variazioni fluttuanti e variabili, ma sostenute, di alcuni parametri quali la velocità di deformazione del suolo e l’emissione di CO2, gli altri parametri rilevati dal sistema di monitoraggio dell’Osservatorio Vesuviano-INGV nel suo complesso, non mostrano al momento evidenze dell’imminenza di una eruzione vulcanica, soprattutto alla luce di un’analisi di tutti i parametri geofisici e geochimici nel loro complesso. Non ci sono, ad esempio, segnali sismici che indichino il movimento di magma verso la superficie né anomalie geofisiche e geochimiche tali da indicare una perturbazione del sistema idrotermale. Gli scenari che possiamo aspettarci nel breve termine vanno, quindi, inseriti nel quadro geofisico che la caldera dei Campi Flegrei mette in luce da tempo: la sismicità proseguirà fin quando sarà in atto il sollevamento del suolo e i terremoti di energia confrontabile con quella del terremoto odierno, o di poco superiore, saranno ancora possibili. Restano possibili una intensificazione della crisi bradisismica come pure una sua diminuzione, con un passaggio da sollevamento a subsidenza (così come avvenuto nelle crisi del secolo scorso).
Cosa sta facendo l’Osservatorio Vesuviano in queste ore?
Nonostante l’evento sismico sia avvenuto a soli 2.5 km in linea d’aria dalla sede dell’Osservatorio Vesuviano, con inevitabile coinvolgimento anche del personale di turno nella notte, l’intera procedura organizzativa che garantisce le comunicazioni previste verso gli organi di Protezione Civile, nei suoi vari livelli, e verso la popolazione, si è svolta secondo gli standard previsti. Inoltre, nelle settimane passate, così come nei giorni che hanno preceduto l’evento sismico della scorsa notte, i vari gruppi di ricercatori dell’Osservatorio Vesuviano con compiti di monitoraggio hanno intensificato le campagne di misura di tutti i parametri fisici e chimici utili alla definizione del fenomeno in atto.
REPLY: Yes, there is an extraordinary number of volcanoes starting to come alive. Campi Flegrei is a serious supervolcano.
We will input all the recent activity and see what the computer comes up with.
Posted originally on Mar 14, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: Marty, Socrates is just amazing. You have been correlating agriculture and climate as volcanoes that produce major global cooling events. Well, just an observation: Many volcanos are becoming active or erupting simultaneously. Do you see a volcanic winter in the cards?
Sam
ANSWER: There is about a 309.6-year cycle to the big ones that result in volcanic winters. However, that begins with the 43BC eruption Okmok II in Alaska. There is a lack of data that prevents an accurate forecast of such events. However, if we look at just recent recorded events from the 1257 eruption of Samalas volcano on Lombok Island, Indonesia, there appear to be events of this nature on the half-cycle so about 154 years or so. This event of 1257 is now recognized as one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the Holocene epoch.
We have three main sources: Ice Core Data: Sulfate spikes in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica date to around 1257–1258. Tree rings from 1258–1260 in regions like Europe and North America suggest prolonged cooling and reduced growing seasons. Historical Records from Medieval chronicles, both from Europe and Asia, describe extreme weather in 1258–1259, including unseasonable cold, heavy rains, crop failures, and famines. The English records recorded this as the “year of famine” with widespread starvation. Interestingly, this is why our database on Wheat began in 1259. Because of this crisis, people started to record prices.
This is why I have warned about simultaneous eruptions. There was also a smaller eruption around 1227 (traced to another tropical volcano) may have compounded cooling effects earlier in the century. Thus, this major event may have magnified the volcanic winter.
A giant volcano in Alaska is showing signs of an impending eruption. Significantly elevated levels of volcanic gas emissions were recently observed around Mount Spurr, which is located 75 miles from Anchorage and is home to nearly 300,000 people. The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) said the emissions ‘confirm’ that new magma is flowing beneath the volcano, indicating a foreseeable eruption.
Small earthquakes were detected at Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Hood during the past week. These are the Cascade Range. We did have the “Volcan de Fuego,” or Volcano of Fire, blowing a thick ash cloud, seen from Palin, Guatemala, on Monday, March 10, 2025. This is more of my concern. Numerous volcanoes can have an accumulative effect.
I can say that a low in 2025 points to higher prices ahead.
Posted originally on Feb 20, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: Marty, Your computer warned that we would be heading into global cooling, not warming. But you also warned that we would see increased volcanic activity and the risk of a volcanic winter. Well, this has been the coldest winter I can remember. With Mt Spurr stirring, another offshore from California, and some hinting at Yellowstone erupting, do you have any update on this aspect from Socrates?
Darby
ANSWER: Nothing has changed. We are heading into a more active volcano period, and that does raise the risk of a volcanic winter in which crops fail, and there will be a shortage of food. I still recommend that you stockpile two years’ worth of food. It is not that you will save money, but that the supply may be seriously diminished. Our models of Wheat warn that this year is the Directional Change, and we can see a shortage into 2028.
However, there are rising concerns about the Supervolcano in Italy that appears to be coming to life. A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck Italy’s Campi Flegrei supervolcano Monday evening. It was at a depth of 3 kilometers, which is the strongest earthquake to hit the area in the past 40 years, according to INGV data. The quake is part of an ongoing “seismic storm” that has seen over a dozen events over 2.0 magnitude in the past 48 hours. The eruption of Mr Vesusius, who buried Pompeii in 79AD, is related to this region. As far as Yellowstone Supervolcano is concerned, it has been showing some more minor activity, but nothing major just yet.
During January 2025, the University of Utah Seismograph Stations, responsible for the operation and analysis of the Yellowstone Seismic Network, located 56 earthquakes in the Yellowstone National Park region. The largest event of the month was a minor earthquake of magnitude 3.7. I would be more concerned about Italy just yet.
There are a number of Supervolcanoes around the world and perhaps the most recent one to erupt was in Italy. The term Supervolcano has been popularized by the BBC and the Discovery Channel story on Yellowstone back in 2005. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a supervolcano is any volcanic center that has explosively erupted at least 1,000 cubic kilometers (240 cubic miles) of fresh volcanic material in a sudden, violent manner – in a so-called supereruption – often producing a huge depression crater named a caldera. Currently, Italy’s Campi Flegrei volcano has been showing signs for the first time in nearly 400 years that it is still alive and well and capable of making a lot of people experience a very bad day.
Aside from Yellowstone, the largest volcanic eruption in the Northern Hemisphere in the past 100,000 years has been attributed to a Supervolcano, which erupted some 39,400 years ago in what is known as the Phlegraean Fields by Naples, Italy. This has been documented from several sources. The ashes from this eruption were distributed over the entire eastern Mediterranean and up to central Russia. This was a huge event that clearly also produced a Volcanic Winter, and that is what is the worst thing for the rest of the world who resides at a safe distance from the actual Supervolcano.
We are beginning to witness a rise in volcanic activity as we enter solar minimum. Hopefully, we are not facing a catastrophic volcanic winter period. But it also does raise some concerns that a pole shift can be far more rapid than previously anticipated. I believe that people prefer to assume uniformity rather than a catastrophe. A stalagmite-based paleomagnetic record of the post-Blake excursion reveals details of repeated polarity drifts have occurred during periods of low geomagnetic field intensity at 100 thousand years before present around the time of this Naples eruption. One surprisingly abrupt centennial reversal transition occurred in 144,000 provides unprecedented evidence that raises fundamental questions about the speed of geomagnetic field shifts. Such rapid polarity changes could severely affect satellites and human society in the future if the current geomagnetic field intensity continues to decrease.
We have a pole shift, climate change, and volcanic eruptions seem to be interlinked on a correlated basis. Our correlation models have warned that this is something that needs to be investigated. For the first time, laying out this record produces what appears to be a single geological archive creating a precise chronological order. These types of events can take place in the space of even just a single decade.
The recent events at the Campi Flegrei volcano have provided a warning sign for the first time in nearly 400 years. The ground at the caldera’s center has bulged by 4 meters, warning that lava is collecting again. This uplifting interestingly began in 1985 with this ECM wave. Keep in mind that the eruptions at the Supervolcanic level took place around 315,000, 205,000, 157,000, and 18,000 years ago. A minor event is still at the level of Vesuvius. So, while we no doubt face a major Supervolcanic event, that level may still be off several thousands of years into the future. What is emerging now is more likely to be an important event, but not at the Supervolcanic level.
Posted originally on Feb 1, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: You mentioned your two dogs and how they know hundreds of words but have different personalities. I believe you said they have the same emotions of love, fear, and hate as humans. Do you think that animals have the same emotional capacity as humans? Are their minds functioning the same as ours in your quest to create AI? Yet you say AI can never achieve that same emotional aspect of life.
KW
ANSWER: Absolutely. Here is a video of animals who bond with humans, from lions to rhinos and elephants. There is something that not only we possess but most animals. I do not believe this can ever be created with code. I can mimic an emotional response. YOu curse at the computer, and it can curse back. But there is no deep “feeling” that emerges. I can even create codes that given the computer vision so it can recognize you from someone else. But again, there is no emotional bond. That is the stuff of movies.
Posted originally on the CTH on December 23, 2024 | Sundance
Remarkable video shows three people surviving after a 15o foot portion of the Santa Cruz Pier collapses. Two engineers and a project manager from a construction team fell into the ocean with the pier and were rescued as the portion that collapsed floated away.
Remarkable video captures the aftermath, and the lifeguards responding as even a skid loader was floating atop the debris.
CALIFORNIA – A portion of the Santa Cruz Wharf has collapsed and is floating away Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
Three people went into the water when the pier section collapsed, according to the Santa Cruz Police Department. Two of them were rescued by lifeguards, and a third person was able to get to safety on their own. All three were treated and released, according to Santa Cruz Fire Department officials.
The incident occurred around 12:45 p.m., officials said. About 150 feet of pier section at the end of the Northern California wharf collapsed.
The end of the pier that broke off had been shut down for repairs caused by prior storms. The portion, which included public restrooms and the closed Dolphin restaurant, floated about half a mile down the coast and wedged itself at the bottom of the San Lorenzo River.
The collapse comes amid a major swell that is expected to bring wave heights up to 26 feet high to parts of the California coast. The swell is expected to last through Tuesday.
“You are risking your life, and those of the people that would need to try and save you by getting in or too close to the water,” the NWS said.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said the governor has been briefed on the pier collapse. The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services is coordinating with local agencies and officials. (read more)
Yikes! In the shocking video (screengrab below) you can see two of the workers floating away on top of the debris, shortly before lifeguard arrived to pull them to safety.
Posted originally on Dec 10, 2024 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I hope you come to Dubai for a conference next year. After your Syrian forecast that the civil war would end only 13 years from the start in 2011, those of us here are still in shock and awe, as you say there in the States. I know your models have considered the cycles in Syria from Roman times. Is 2027 still the target in the Middle East?
BAF
ANSWER: Syria has a very long history. Antioch was the link to the Silk Road for all the dies and spices from Asia. As you can see, it is sandwiched between Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel. Historically, it has also been known as the Levant and a strategic chess piece in the global war of geopolitics. The Seleucid Empire was a Greek state in West Asia during the Hellenistic period. It was founded in 312BC by the Macedonian general Seleucus I Nikator (312-281BC) when the Macedonian Empire founded by Alexander the Great was divided after his death among his generals.
Thus, this became known as the Seleucid dynasty until its annexation by the Roman Republic under Pompey in 63 BC, who conquered the region, transforming Syria into a Roman province. This has lent Syria the opportunity to provide a rich database extending centuries for computer analysis. First, you must acknowledge that laws are always silent during war and civil unrest. They are the decorations of civilization and only apply when there is civil discord – not war and upheaval.
The first Syrian to become a Roman Emperor was Elagabalus (218-222AD). This is always the same pattern of the conquered/slave eventually becoming king. Some pointed that out when Obama became President. This is a mere fact of history. The king is dead – long live the king. Another fact of history is when there is a civil uprising, the king may fall, but the victor quickly assumes the same policies as those he vanquished.
The English Civil War tore down the rule of law, and here you see Oliver Cromwell quickly issued coinage styled as the very king he had beheaded for daring to defend against him in the civil war. He put King Charles on trial, found him guilty for losing the civil war, and then beheaded him.
Civil Wars tend to last 4.3 years (American Civil War), 8.6 years (English Civil War), and even 13 years (Cambodian Civil War, 1967-1975). However, go beyond that 8.6-year period, and it will extend to 13 years.
Countless times when there have been civil wars, you find the head of state when captured, is often executed. This seems to be standard. When they are dead, they will routinely topple their statues as they did throughout Eastern Europe, toppling the statues of Lenin.
Civil Wars always invoke deep hatred, and when leaders are not executed, what you find is often assassinations of the victor. They assassinated Julius Caesar after he won the civil war. These are cyclical patterns that routinely take place. There was an attempted assassination of Zelensky, and he fired his head of security because it was Ukrainians – not Russians. There was a similar attempted assassination of Hitler.
Assad is wise to flee with his family to Russia, for they would have all been executed just as the Russian Revolution executed the entire family of the Czar. People who engaged in civil wars and/or revolutions always responded the same way, no matter what culture or nation was involved. The Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi also fled Iran in 1978 during that revolution. These things may appear to be a shock, but they are standard in the playbook of geopolitics.
I have previously warned that Turkey has the largest army in the Middle East, and Erdogan praised the Hamas attack because he dreams of resurrecting the Ottoman Empire and he sees himself as the leader. They are mortal enemies of Greece and that goes back to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Turkey has funded these rebels, and that became possible only because Israel destroyed Hezbollah. On the one hand, you have the US cheering Al-Qaeda all because the Neocons have been trying for years to overthrow all three dictators they created in Syria, Iraq, and Libya. Now, they can get the pipeline from Qutar to cut off Russia’s energy sales to Europe. So this is all about Russia, Russia, Russia. Meanwhile, they are so fixated on conquering Russia that they have ignored the real threat in the Middle East of the resurrection of the Ottoman Empire.
I will update the prospects for war in the Middle East and the power vacuum that is unfolding that is hidden behind the headlines. Most people have no idea that it was the West that created all of these arab states. They were never independent nation-states. With World War I, the West finally took down the Ottoman Empire. This was when the Sykes-Picot Agreement was established as a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with the consent of Russia, Italy, and the United States. They were carving up the Ottoman Empire, which they mutually agreed to establish spheres of influence, thereby partitioning the Ottoman Empire. Syria was created, and the rule of Assad was in the economic interests of the West.
I have been asked why I do not write much about the Israeli war and offer a solution. There is NONE!!!! This is a religious war, and a ceasefire will only be temporary. Israel’s enemies is not limited to Iran. It also includes Turkey as we move forward in time.
We will publish an update on the geopolitical future of the Middle East for the Arab world and Israel. This will be released in January.
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