Slow-slip quakes and stirring supervolcanoes: What's happening beneath our feet?
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The Fascination With Super Volcanoes
Volcanoes are fascinating things and they're quite awe-inspiring. Interruptions happen on a scale that is kind of incomprehensible to humans. I think the media makes mistakes with super volcanoes like Topo but also particularly with Yellowstone. There's this assumption that because something is called a super volcano that any eruption from that is going to be a super eruption and is going to destroy the whole world. That is really not the case. Of the 28 eruptions it's had in the last 25,000 years only two of them were actually particularly large.
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