If you want to know how good Italy will handle such a catastrophe you could take a look at the outcome of the earthquake in L'Aquila in in 2009. This area is a

If you want to know how good Italy will handle such a catastrophe you could take a look at the outcome of the earthquake in L'Aquila in in 2009. This area is a known earthquake area. The earthquake was rated 5.8 or 5.9 on the Richter scale. 380 people died. Lot's of "earthquake-proof" buildings were damaged. For example L'Aquila new hospital had to be closed. Around 40.000 people were made homeless and had to live in tented camps for weeks, many for months. They were more or less left alone and had to depend on relatives or foreign help organizations. Official support was more or less non existent. In a "normal" country an earthquake like this one would not have killed more than ten persons. There haven't been much consequences after this embarrassing fiasco apart of that an Italian court convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter for failing to adequately warn citizens before the earthquake struck. (This ruling was overturned later.) A large eruption of Vesuvius will cause a thousands of dead's and Italy will be toast and the new Greece. Too make it even more depressing there is not even a way to prepare for this event and change that outcome. All money spent for this will land in the pockets of politicians and the mafia, whereby in Naples they are the same anyway.