A detailed geophysical study published in Nature in by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has refined our understanding of the ...

According to reports, a "supervolcano" sleeping underneath Yellowstone National Park has the destructive capability to send the entire planet into a volcanic winter.

The supervolcano label is also applied by the media and by some scientists to volcanoes that have never produced a supereruption, such as Campi Flegrei in Italy, muddying the waters further ...

People will starve and die. Nobody living on this planet has experienced a supervolcano eruption. The last was 74,000 years ago, at Mount Toba on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

The caldera may have blasted out its cryomagma in a single explosive event, or it may have spread its eruptions over time.

The supervolcano last had a major eruption about 630,000 years ago, Till added. Prior to that, the last major eruption was 1.3 million years ago, per a report from ZME Science.

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Inverse spoke to Andrews about how a supervolcano eruption would transform the Earth by 2121. His response has been edited and condensed: A volcano in Sleman, Indonesia.

This supervolcano erupted 74,000 years ago, ejecting 2800 cubic kilometers of volcanic debris—approximately the volume of Lake Ontario—and plunging the earth into a six-to-10-year volcanic winter.

It seems that any time calamity is in the headlines, often whether it has to do with the earth’s plumbing or otherwise, talk online inevitably turns to Yellowstone and the supervolcano that lies ...

I f you’re worried a supervolcano lying beneath Yellowstone National Park could erupt and plunge the planet into a volcanic winter, you shouldn’t be. While a future eruption — a prospect ...

The word "supervolcano" appears in the news a lot, but I'm guessing a lot of the public aren't clear on what it means. Forget the sensationalization: here's what it means, and what it doesn't mean.