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by FireBeyond 1052 days ago
I think people struggle with the magnitude.

Mt St Helens, for example. Not the largest eruption.

But a landslide of approximately 2.5km^3 (over 3 billion cubic yards).

Okay, some say, so that is a lot of earth...

and then you learn that the landslide was moving at speeds of up to 160mph.

That's a LOT of energy.

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It sure is. And we've yet to survive our modern-day supervulcano eruption.