One of the most devastating volcanoes erupted 7,300 years ago — and scientists say it’s filling with magma again

Dubbed the Kikai caldera, this mostly-underwater caldera located south of Japan’s Ryuku Islands last erupted 7,300 years ago, ...

This Supervolcano Is Refilling With Magma After 7,300 Years

A supervolcano that once shook the Earth is quietly recharging—and scientists are finally seeing how it happens. Scientists ...

Yellowstone’s Dreaded Supervolcano Has an Unexpected Power Source, Study Says

Rather than a single giant chamber, the Yellowstone Caldera is made up of a complex system that includes a shallow magma ...
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One of Earth's Most Explosive Volcanoes Is Quietly Refilling With Magma

The Kikai Caldera. (Seama Nobukazu/CC BY 4.0) About 7,300 years ago, a volcano off Japan's Kyushu island unleashed what remains the largest known eruption of the Holocene, our current geological epoch ...
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One of Earth’s most explosive supervolcanoes is recharging

Far beneath the ocean near Japan, scientists have discovered that the magma system linked to the most powerful eruption of the Holocene is slowly rebuilding. By using seismic imaging, researchers ...
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Japan’s Kikai caldera shows magma refilling beneath the volcano

New seismic surveys beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera have detected a large zone of partially molten rock refilling the magma ...

Japan's giant caldera volcano is refilling 7,300 years later

The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai ...