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There are about 12 supervolcanoes on Earth - each one at least seven times larger than Mount Tambora, which had the biggest eruption in recorded history. If all of these supervolcanoes erupted at once ...

Two long-dormant “supervolcanoes” on two separate continents appear to be stirring to life. Well, maybe. In recent months, more than a thousand minor earthquakes have rattled the area around the Campi ...

"Supervolcanoes" have been blamed for multiple mass extinctions in Earth's history, but the cause of their massive eruptions is unknown. "Supervolcanoes" have been blamed for multiple mass extinctions ...

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Once primed, a supervolcano can decompress and erupt in under a year, a new study shows, offering little warning before a potentially cataclysmic event. Supervolcanoes, the hulking geological ...

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Supervolcanoes can produce massive eruptions of hundreds to thousands of cubic kilometers of magma -- up to 10,000 times more than a typical eruption from a Hawaiian volcano. They also produce vast ...

Earthquakes rattle the ground while cannon-like explosions shoot burning rock and ash into the air at speeds upwards of 600 miles per hour. The burning rocks crash to the earth, setting the grass and ...

Around 74,000 years ago, a massive volcano on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island erupted, spewing thousands of cubic kilometers of material into the atmosphere and plunging the Earth into a "volcanic winter," ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill.-- Supervolcanoes, massive eruptions with potential global consequences, appear not to follow the conventional volcano mechanics of internal pressure building until the volcano blows.