Earthquakes both large and small had rocked the entire island of Sumatra for a year before Mount Toba started to blast out a few small eruptions of steam and ash that blanketed the surrounding jungle.

While volcanoes can be frightening, supervolcanoes are even scarier. These five supervolcanoes are proof of that, having ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

What is a Supervolcano? A supervolcano is a volcano that can produce an eruption of magnitude greater than 8 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI). These colossal eruptions can eject more than 1,000 ...

The amount of global cooling estimated in the study is comparable to what occurred when Sumatra’s Mount Toba experienced a super-eruption, considered to be one of the largest in Earth’s ...