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One of Earth’s most powerful supervolcanoes is refilling with fresh magma

Deep beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera, a massive magma reservoir is refilling 7,300 years after one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in Earth's recent geological history. Scientists used underwater seismic surveys to reveal a vast store of magma that appears to have accumulated since the ancient catastrophe. The discovery could help explain how supervolcanoes like Yellowstone and Toba rebuild their magma supplies.

Entertainment

‘Marshals’ Star Luke Grimes Says He Hasn’t Spoken to ‘Yellowstone’ Co-Star Kevin Costner ‘Since We Stopped Working Together’

Kevin Costner and Luke Grimes may have played a father-son duo on-screen in “Yellowstone,” but off-screen, the two actors haven’t spoken since Taylor Sheridan’s Western drama concluded. “I’ve never spoken to Kevin since we stopped working together,” Grimes, who now stars in the “Yellowstone” spin-off “Marshals,” said in a recent interview with USA Today. “Not […]

Science

The end of humanity? What would happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted now

A Yellowstone super-eruption would begin not with a sudden surprise, but with weeks of increasingly alarming warning signs such as migrating earthquake swarms, rapid ground uplift, changing geysers, and rising volcanic gases. In a worst-case scenario, those signals could culminate in a VEI 8 eruption that blasts ash tens of kilometers into the atmosphere, unleashes deadly pyroclastic flows, buries parts of the western United States in ash, and cripples transportation, electricity, water systems, agriculture, and communications across much of North America.