SUPERVOLCANOES pose a huge threat to life on Earth yet their potential to destroy civilisations often goes undocumented.

Supervolcanoes don’t form mountain peaks, ... This map shows known major volcanic eruptions of Earth's past. Those in red are at least Magnitude 8 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index.

Supervolcanoes are like the supervillains of the geologic world, as stories of their looming threat grow ever more exaggerated. Though massive eruptions do pose real dangers, misconceptions about ...

So if all the supervolcanoes go off at once, volcanic debris would spread across the globe. When the eruption ends, the disaster will have only just started.

When one of the world’s supervolcanoes does blow, there is no predicting how much havoc it will wreak. “The last eruption was about 400,000 years ago, the last big one. That was a devastating ...

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 ...

The next big disaster epic out of Hollywood might want to borrow its script from a new study on catastrophic supervolcanoes. It turns out the rare occurrence — which involves enough magma and… ...

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

The surface of ancient Mars may be littered with the remnants of 'supervolcanoes' — a very explosive kind of volcano never before seen in Martian geology.

BYU geologists found evidence of 20 ancient "supervolcanoes" near the Utah-Nevada border One week-long eruption was 5,000 times larger than the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption Ash from these eruptions ...

SUPERVOLCANOES pose a huge threat to life on Earth yet their potential to destroy civilisations often goes undocumented. By Sean Martin 06:18, Fri, Aug 17, 2018 | UPDATED: 09:17, Fri, Aug 17, 2018 ...