[Happy2BMe]

"It would dwarf the volcanic explosion in the Mediterranean in the 2nd millennium BC and that affected the entire planet."

Let's not forget that only 13 years ago Mount Pinatubo in the Phillipines erupted and caused earth's temperature to drop .5 celcius.

Aerial view of Mount Pinatubo after the cataclysmic June 15, 1991. A joint team from the US Geological Survey and the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) worked closely to assess hazards and monitor and predict eruptive activity at Mount Pinatubo in 1991. The accurate characterization of the hazards and timely warnings of eruptions led to the evacuation of approximately 56,000 people--including 14,500 U.S. servicemen and their dependents--from high-hazard areas near Mount Pinatubo days before the volcano's climactic eruption. Photo by E.W. Wolfe.

[blam]

"Let's not forget that only 13 years ago Mount Pinatubo in the Phillipines erupted and caused earth's temperature to drop .5 celcius."

The plume from Pinatubo was 26 miles high.

[aruanan]

And Pinatubo was a pip-squeak among major volcanic eruptions.

[oceanperch]

Was that the Mt. that before it blew looked like a perfect Cone?

If so I flew by it as a teen ager in PI and when I returned to the states it was a poster that was on my bedroom wall.

I remember being told it was unactive if the same volcano. That was in 1976.