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 ...

Beneath the Earth’s surface are ticking time bombs. Two supervolcanoes, located in Italy and California, have long been dormant, but have been stirring as earthquakes in the region become more ...

The geological record holds clues that throughout Earth's 4.5-billion-year lifetime massive supervolcanoes, far larger than Mount St. Helens or Mount Pinatubo, have erupted. However, despite the ...

"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 ...

Supervolcano eruptions rock the planet once every 100,000 years on average and though rare, their impacts are far-reaching. When the Toba supervolcano in Indonesia erupted some 74,000 years ago, there ...

Massive supervolcanic eruptions can be triggered much more quickly than previously thought, scientists report July 21 in Geology. The researchers made the discovery while reconstructing the history of ...

A group of European researchers have concluded that the pressure in the magma chambers of supervolcanoes, like the one beneath Yellowstone National Park, is enough to set off an eruption, even without ...

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Earth has some massive volcanoes called "supervolcanoes" that can cause huge eruptions, way bigger than anything we’ve ever seen in modern times. Some of these, like Yellowstone in the U.S. and Campi ...

Devastating supervolcanoes can erupt simply due to changes that happen in their giant magma chambers as they slowly cool, according to a new study. This finding marks the first time researchers have ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A doomsday volcanic eruption with the power to wipe out civilization may sound like the premise ...

It’s hard not to stand in complete awe of everything the Earth has to offer when you’re in the middle of Yellowstone National Park. Its most famous geyser, Old Faithful, shoots up into the sky as ...