Earth already has at least 24 supervolcanoes, of which the one beneath Yellowstone Park in the US is the most famous. As far as Australia goes, there’s good news and bad. Good: none of the supervolcanoes identified so far is here. Bad: that fact wouldn’t matter much if a supervolcano in New Zealand or Indonesia were to erupt.
Besides, scientists probably haven’t yet identified them all, even though such supervolcanoes are the most destructive phenomenon in nature, able to darken the sky for decades and change a continent forever. So scientists are searching the world to find these most explosive of volcanoes, which collect intense energy hundreds of kilometres below the Earth’s surface in our planet’s red-hot mantle.
And in December 2020, a new one was added to the
