00:04Volcanoes are some of the most powerful and destructive forces planet Earth is capable of.
00:09But while smaller volcanoes explode or seep lava onto the surface pretty much all the time,
00:14supervolcanoes are another story.
00:15And now a research team in Indonesia studying the terrifying geological events
00:19says everything we know about supervolcano eruption patterns could be wrong.
00:24It was once thought that after a super eruption, these mega destroyers would go dormant for ages.
00:28But after looking at minerals feldspar and zircon, which act as geological time capsules,
00:33they now believe that supervolcanoes likely remain active
00:35and can even continue spewing lava for thousands of years after they blow.
00:39In the case of the Toba supervolcano, it continued for around 5,000 to 13,000 years.
00:45According to the researchers, these types of events only happen about once every 17,000 years,
00:50meaning the superblast has not only a massive effect on the surrounding area and the world at large,
00:55but it does so for millennia.
00:57The researchers say learning more about supervolcanoes like the one underneath Yellowstone
01:01is our best defense against the next inevitable eruption.
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01:07Until the south, I can treat the line on something said that.
01:08In my opinion, everything has been so ongoing on black sparrow over 7,000 years.
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