There has not been a true super eruption globally for 26,000 years, since New Zealand’s Taupō erupted. If one of Earth’s ‘supervolcanoes’ had an eruption on this scale today, the disruption would eclipse anything in living memory, making the travel problems from 2010’s Eyjafjallajökull eruption look like a blip.

Panicked residents were seen pouring into the streets of the southern Italian city after the 4.4magnitude quake was registered shortly after 8pm local time (6pm GMT)

A women’s prison near Naples was among the buildings evacuated on Tuesday after a 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck near an active volcano in Italy. The quake had an epicenter at the active volcano west of the southern Italian port city that forced hundreds of residents to sleep in tents or cars.