http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=recent-east-coast-volcano&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

Some very surprising answers to that question.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/18/yellowstone-volcano-magma_n_4467243.html?1387388047&icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl10%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D421345 ( Read more... )

Robert Brockway, a columnist and blogger for Cracked.com and webmaster of iFightRobots.com. has produced one of the most fascinating and downright terrifying books it has ever been my (mis)fortune to run across. Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead, a collection of his well-researched essays on ( Read more... )

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74,000 years ago a supervolcano blew up in South-East Asia, threatening the humans and every animal, causing one of the major disasters after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RItbf1Yp5SU)

A volcanic superplume erupts around 377 million years ago, and causes a huge mass extinction, a threat to our remote ancestors, the first amphibians.

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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnWoey2y5PA)

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Life on Earth has experienced five great extinctions. The worst occurred about 250 million years ago during the Permian period. Our ancestors at that time were mammal-like reptiles. The super-plume theory attempts to explain ( Read more... )

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The scariest part? There are 21 more volcanoes tuning up in that region, in what scientists believe is a major tectonic plate ( Read more... )

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2013320798_volcano02.html