Photo by Flickr user Kimon Berlin. CC BY 2.0. Sakurajima, right across Kagoshima, one of the most active volcanoes in the world. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kimon/4128149164
Mankind is grossly unprepared for a catastrophic volcanic eruption that could kill hundreds of millions of people and cast the world back into a “pre-civilisation state”, a panel of geologists, economists and climate scientists from the European Science Foundation have warned, reports the Australian.
According to the article, there is a 5 to 10 per cent probability that a blast measuring 7 on the volcanic explositivity index (VEI 7) — unseen since the Tambora eruption in Indonesia killed 92,000 people in 1815 — would happen before 2100.
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