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Supervolcano eruptions can wipe out civilization

New Delhi: A study has found that the eruption of a supervolcano hundreds of times more powerful than conventional volcanoes, with the potential to wipe out civilisation as we know it, is more likely than

India TV News Desk Published : Jan 07, 2014 15:22 IST, Updated : Jan 08, 2014 6:44 IST


Supervolcanoes represent the second most globally cataclysmic event - next to an asteroid strike - and they have been responsible in the past for mass extinctions, long-term changes to the climate and shorter-term "volcanic winters" caused by volcanic ash cutting out the sunlight.

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