What are supervolcanoes, and how catastrophic can they be?  Well, they are like Earth’s ticking time bombs.

After spending several idyllic months on the island of Tahiti, on April 28, 1789, led by Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, the men aboard the H.M.S. Bounty, a British naval vessel commanded by William Bligh, mounted a legendary mutiny.

What are supervolcanoes, and how catastrophic can they be?  Well, they are like Earth’s ticking time bombs.

What are supervolcanoes, and how catastrophic can they be?  Well, they are like Earth’s ticking time bombs.

What are supervolcanoes, and how catastrophic can they be?  Well, they are like Earth’s ticking time bombs.

What are supervolcanoes, and how catastrophic can they be?  Well, they are like Earth’s ticking time bombs.

After spending several idyllic months on the island of Tahiti, on April 28, 1789, led by Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, the men aboard the H.M.S. Bounty, a British naval vessel commanded by William Bligh, mounted a legendary mutiny.

What are supervolcanoes, and how catastrophic can they be?  Well, they are like Earth’s ticking time bombs.

What are supervolcanoes, and how catastrophic can they be?  Well, they are like Earth’s ticking time bombs.

After spending several idyllic months on the island of Tahiti, on April 28, 1789, led by Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, the men aboard the H.M.S. Bounty, a British naval vessel commanded by William Bligh, mounted a legendary mutiny.

What are supervolcanoes, and how catastrophic can they be?  Well, they are like Earth’s ticking time bombs.

What are supervolcanoes, and how catastrophic can they be?  Well, they are like Earth’s ticking time bombs.

What are supervolcanoes, and how catastrophic can they be?  Well, they are like Earth’s ticking time bombs.