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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have long predicted that Mars had significant volcanic activity in the first billion years of its history, but images of the planet’s surface haven’t delivered as much evidence of volcanoes ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...