[Sca-cooks] OT Volcano (was Bidding for Count Gunthar)

[Irmele von Gruensberg]

May I mention Toba in Sumatra, that erupted 74,000 years ago. It was ten
thousands times bigger than Mt St Helens, and created such a global catastrophe
that scientists believe it brought the human population of the Earth down to a
few thousand. Total. On the whole Earth.

Yellowstone National Park is an even larger supervolcano, and is becoming due
for an eruption...

Irmele, ducking for cover.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/supervolcanoes.shtml

> -----Original Message-----
> --- Phil Anderson <urizen at clear.net.nz> wrote:
[snip]
> > Note New Zealand's biggest lake, Taupo, in the
> > middle of the North Island...Last time it went
> > off...it's theorised that the blast was heard in
> > China....Compared to a major Taupo eruption, Mt St
> > Helens is down around damp-firework status.
>
> I hate to contradict you but there was a very
> interesting documentary about Krakatoa earlier this
> year which said that, while its eruption during the
> 19th Century was huge, its previous eruption was the
> "world's largest volcanic eruption", in the 14th
> Century, which was also heard in China, and that all
> the particulate matter that was sent into the air
> caused the mini Ice Age that Europe and North America
> experienced during that century.  They labeled
> Krakatoa the most dangerous volcano in the world.
>
> Me, I say ALL volcanos are dangerous and should be
> kept at a distance.
>
> Huette