Forget Yellowstone - These EIGHT Supervolcanoes Could Destroy The World | Answers With Joe

Get 20% of a premium subscription to Brilliant when you're one of the first 200 people to sign up at http://www.brilliant.org/answerswithjoe Supervolcanoes are bigger than you think, and there are more of them than you think. There are, in fact, eight supervolcanoes around the world that have changed the geography of continents and caused mass extinctions. What are these volcanoes? What causes them, and most importantly, could we survive one? Today we take a deep dive into one of the most destructive forces on the planet. And if you think that supervolcanoes have been over-hyped... trust me, they haven't. Want to support the channel? Here's how: Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/answerswithjoe Channel Memberships: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-2YHgc363EdcusLIBbgxzg/join T-Shirts & Merch: http://www.answerswithjoe.com/store Check out my 2nd channel, Joe Scott TMI: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqi721JsXlf0wq3Z_cNA_Ew Interested in getting a Tesla or going solar? Use my referral link and get discounts and perks: https://ts.la/joe74700 Follow me at all my places! Instagram: https://instagram.com/answerswithjoe TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@answerswithjoe Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/answerswithjoe Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/answerswithjoe LINKS LINKS LINKS: https://ancient-greece.org/history/minoan.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorini_caldera https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/santorini/minoan-eruption/size.html https://theconversation.com/krakatoa-is-still-active-and-we-are-not-ready-for-the-tsunamis-another-eruption-would-generate-147250 https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/questions-about-supervolcanoes https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/vsc/glossary/vei.html https://www.yellowstone.org/yellowstone-supervolcano-revealed/, https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/deep-inside-earth-scientists-find-weird-blobs-mountains-taller-mount-ncna997111 https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/earth/power-of-plate-tectonics/volcanoes https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/question-mantle-plumes/ http://www.mantleplumes.org/TeachingPlates_vs_Plumes.html https://geology.com/stories/13/volcanic-explosivity-index/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2014.00016/full https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3657767/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0377027301002396