Japans Massive Active Super Volcano and Its Horrifying 30, 000 Year Old Eruption

, supervolcano, japan, volcanology, geology, earthscience, earthsciences, geography, oceanic, ocean, arctic, volcanoes, volcanoeruption, geoscience, volcanicarc, japanese, japaneseislands, kyusu, caldera, airacaldera, supervolcanoes The Aira Caldera is one of the larger recent supervolcanic eruptions to have occurred on our planet. With it roaring to life in a spectacular fashion at some point around 30, 000 years ago. This massive eruption formed a pyroclastic flow that was over 800 cubic kilometers in size, and released an additional 300 cubic kilometers worth of tephra ontop of this, at a minimum, too. It covered nearby Japan in a layer of ash, and further plunged the already freezing planet into an ever deeper cold spell, due to the commencement of a volcanic winter, post eruption. Nowadays this volcano is still very much active, and alive, and it s been embodied by the sukurajima stratovolcano. Which took over after the aira caldera eruption occurred, and it itself formed around 26, 000