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THE LONGEST EVERJOURNEY BY TRACTORVasilii Hazkevich from Russia drove 21,199km (13,172 miles) on an
unmodied tractor. He started and nished the trip, which took
just over three months, in Vladimir, Russia. I doubt he picked upmany speeding tickets on his journey!
The Lake Toba eruption in Indonesia, about 74,000 years ago, goes
down as the most powerful eruption we know of. It measured in
at a category eight eruption, which is the highest on the Volcanic
Explosivity Index (VEI). The blast was on such a scale it caused the
earth to plunge into a volcanic winter and eradicated approximately
60% of the human life that was present at the time. (However, this
percentage is very rough as we can only guess how many humans
were present on earth 74,000 years ago.)
There could be an even larger eruption if the supervolcano that
lies beneath Yellowstone National Park were to erupt. This would
lead to a global disaster never before witnessed by mankind. Where-
as the disasters that were familiar with today can claim thousands
of lives and destroy entire cities, its thought a supervolcano could
claim billions of lives and destroy entire continents.
Blow your mind
THE BIGGEST EVER
VOLCANIC ERUPTION
What lies beneath?
Bubbling Yellowstone
National Park
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