Yellowstone is well-known as one of the largest volcanic systems in the world. Few people know, however, that the largest-known subaerial landslide on Earth is located just next door.

The Apolaki Caldera, known to be the world's largest caldera to date, was discovered in Benham Rise by a Pinay marine geophysicist Jenny Anne Barretto and her team. READ: Pinay scientist discovers ...

The Largest Caldera The summit calderas of Olympus Mons on Mars seen by ESA's Mars Express on January 21, 2004. Credit: ESA, processed by Andrea Luck/Flickr, annotated by Erik Klemetti.

In terms of volcanic style, however, there are many similar caldera systems around the world, some of which have had larger eruptions and some smaller, some of which are restless and some dormant.

The caldera may have blasted out its cryomagma in a single explosive event, or it may have spread its eruptions over time.

This aerial image released by the U.S. Geological Survey on Nov. 28, 2022, courtesy of the National Weather Service, shows the lava in the summit caldera of Mauna Loa in Hawaii, which is erupting ...

It is now the largest iceberg in the world, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. Newly-calved iceberg A-76 was captured by satellites by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, ESA said Wednesday.

Lake Toba and Toba Caldera in Sumatra, Indonesia. NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Our story begins on a very bad day about 74,000 years ago. The planet was starting to move out of ...

The city of Mammoth Lakes sits on the edge of the Long Valley Caldera formed around 700,000 years ago. This caldera is 15 miles in diameter and is North America's second largest. 1.