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Marsili is a large undersea volcano in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about south of Naples. The seamount is about 3,000 m (9,800 feet) tall; its peak and crater are about 450 m below the sea surface. Though it has not erupted in recorded history, volcanologists believe that Marsili is a relatively fragile-walled structure, made of low-density and unstable rocks, fed by the underlying shallow magma chamber. Volcanologists with the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) announced on March 29, 2010 that Marsili could erupt at any time, and might experience a catastrophic collapse that would suddenly release vast amounts of magma in an undersea eruption and landslide that could trigger destructive tsunamis on the Italian coast and nearby Mediterranean coastlines.
Marsili is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658 – 1730), Italian soldier and naturalist
- Massimiliano Marsili (born 1987), Italian footballer
- Pere Marsili, Dominican friar, chronicler, translator, and royal ambassador
- Sante Marsili (born 1950), Italian water polo player