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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malanath" data-source="post: 2342082" data-attributes="member: 25538">According to some of the sources I've read:"The last known explosion of what might be considered a super volcano was Toba in Indonesia. Toba erupted with a huge explosion about 74,000 years ago. The force of the explosion was estimated to be 10,000 times more powerful than the blast that destroyed Mount St. Helens, in Washington. Tremendous amounts of rock and ash were ejected into the air, blocking the sun for months. The temperature around the globe was thought to have plummeted as much as 21 degrees. Man was pushed to the edge of extinction, the population forced down to just a couple of thousand. Perhaps as much as 75% of plant life on the North American continent may have died out.""Magma would be flung more than 50 kilometres into the atmosphere. Within a thousand kilometres virtually all life would be killed by falling ash, lava flows and the sheer explosive force of the eruption. Volcanic ash would cover places thousands of miles away. One thousand cubic kilometres of lava would pour out of the volcano itself, enough to coat the whole of the USA with a layer a few inches thick. ... Within minutes of the eruption tens of thousands could be dead. The long-term effects would be even more devastating. The thousands of cubic kilometres of ash that would shoot into the atmosphere could block out light from the sun, making global temperatures fall dramatically. .... Effects world wide would cause massive food shortages."Alright, multiply that by about three or five.  What would be the result?</blockquote>

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