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earth's snooze button and delete key, sharing the same finger.
means a volcano capable of an eruption over 1,000 cubic kilometers, the kind that rewrites climates instead of just towns.
from the term surfaced in 1970s BBC documentary circles, but geologists formalized it around the volcanic explosivity index, where anything scoring an 8 out of 8 earns the super prefix.
yellowstone calderaitself a supervolcano, currently just simmering
last mega eruptiontoba, sumatra, roughly 74,000 years ago
climate effectcan drop global temperatures for years
warning sizecalderas span tens of kilometers wide