[ken5050]

Krakatoa...which erupted in the 1880's..was the world's largest recorded eruption...The island, which is located on the same fault line..literally blew itself apart..90% of it disappeared. In the 1920's..the volcano erupted out of ther ocean floor..and stated to rebuilt itself..there is now a new island, and it is the SAME height as Krakatoa before it erupted..

[Sender]

If we have another Krakatoa, then I won't have to keep looking for a job. Silver lining in every cloud!

[Beowulf9]

I would love to have seen Krakatoa when she blew. My father spent many years retelling me the story of how a ship in English waters heard the explosion and thought it was a nearby ship in distress.

I'd also would've love to have seen Vesuvius when she blew. Pliny the Elder did, but then he and his little boat were 'bye bye' after he saw it, so I guess I will just have to postpone my Sumatra vacation and ask those living there to
GET THE HECK OUTATHERE!

The Ring of Fire is not just a Johnny Cash song.

[Phsstpok]

Ah, yes, mention a  supervolcano and you get two reactions

"it's alarmist and never going to happen"

or

"remember Krakatoa?"

for both sets of commenters, contemplate this little picture:

 

Now the Toba eruption they mention, 75,000 years ago, put out 2800 cubic kilometers (672 cubic miles), making it larger than the largest Yellowstone eruption on the graphic above.

		Cubic Mi	Cubic KM
Toba	75000	671.8	2,800
Yellowstone	2,000,000	600	2,501
Yellowstone	630,000	240	1,000
Island Park	1,300,000	67	279.27
Tambora	190	36	150.05
Mazama	7,600	18	75.03
Krakatau	122	4.3	17.92
Pinatubo	14	2.4	10
St. Helens	25	0.24	0.83

I think we might want to pay attention to this.

I think we might stop comparing it to Kraktoa (Krakatau).