Book,
The internal structure of Mt. Vesuvius: a seismic tomography investigation
Liguori Editore, Napoli, Italy, (2003)
Abstract
Mt. Vesuvius is quiescent since 1944. Since then an uncontrolled expansion
of the municipalities located on the slope of the volcano occurred.
This has transformed Mt. Vesuvius surroundings into the area with
the highest risk in the world. The scientific community has been
promoting new researches aiming at the definition of the next eruption's
scenario and at improving the forecasting capability of the monitoring
system. It is in this context that the TomoVes Project was conceived,
becoming a project, supported by the European Commission, that contributes
to protection of people and territory, being one of the main EU policies.
TomoVes project resulted in a major advance in the reconstruction
of a complex structure such as the interior of an active volcano
and, as it is the rule in scientific research, it was not the closing
point. Some of the answers given to the addressed questions were
quite unexpected and they open the road to further research in order
to fully define the models, have further validations and explore
all the possible implications. This volume gathers the main results
obtained by TomoVes, reissuing articles scattered on different international
journals and integrating them with original works.
