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Calabria and Sicily are progressively moving apart due to a system of faults present in the seabed of the Southern Ionian Sea, which are causing the earth's crust to slowly sink off the Strait.This is what emerges from the first results of a study carried out by members of the National Research Council (CNR), conducted on the oceanographic vessel Gaia Blu, in which they were identified very large cracks on the seabed of one of the most active seismic zones on the European continent.The research, which aims to increase knowledge on geological processes in the southern Ionian Sea, was carried out off the coast of the Ionian Sea between Etna and Greece.Although the area is distant from the Strait, the attestation of the movement of separation between the crustal blocks is already producing significant repercussions on the public debate regarding the safety and sustainability of the Bridge over the Strait of Messina, work on which - at least according to the government's intentions - shoul...