Season 6 ~ Episode #10 - - - 7 Things You Need To Know About The Supervolcano

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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on July 25, 2014 at 4:17pm

VOLCANIC EXPLOSIVITY INDEX

It's a real thing! Rhett didn't make this one up

(although Link didn't even know it existed and Rhett giggled a bit) . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_Explosivity_Index

Volume of products, eruption cloud height, and qualitative observations (using terms ranging from "gentle" to "mega-colossal") are used to determine the explosivity value. The scale is open-ended with the largest volcanoes in history given magnitude 8. A value of 0 is given for non-explosive eruptions, defined as less than 10,000 m³ (350,000 cu ft) of tephra* ejected.

VEI-8 - - represents a mega-colossal explosive eruption that can eject 1.0×10¹² m³ (3.5×10¹³ cu ft) of tephra and have a cloud column height of over 50 km (31 mi)

* Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption

regardless of composition, fragment size or emplacement mechanism

K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on July 25, 2014 at 4:25pm

Well, here I go again . . . NUMBERS!

K-ModPermalink Reply by Victoria (Centauromadoose) on August 1, 2014 at 1:04pm

Well, GMMore was informative! I know all about the male psyche now, haha.

This is another instance in which the less structured, personal story-based GMMore was much more entertaining to me than the actual GMM episode. When are R&L going to realize their strength lies in storytelling??