According to the New Zealand Crown Research Institutes, it covered areas more than 100km away with of pyroclastic flow. Today, the Taupo super volcano remains active, and is now 800 years overdue ...

New Zealand scientists on Tuesday increased the alert level for the volcano below the country's biggest lake, ... Ngarruhoe and Ruapehu rise over the shores of Lake Taupo September 28, 2011.

Lake Taupo-area scientists in New Zealand raised the alert level of a volcano sitting beneath the country’s largest lake on Tuesday after detecting 700 small earthquakes below the surface since May.

Alert level raised on New Zealand's giant Taupo volcano - source of Earth's largest eruption in past 5,000 years. The Taupo volcano last exploded around 1,800 years ago - when it spewed more than ...

The Taupo volcano - which sits in NZ's biggest lake - exploded 1800 years ago, firing more than 100 cubic kilometres of material into the air, in what is the world's largest eruption in the last ...

Eruption fears as New Zealand’s Taupo supervolcano’s alert level is raised. When Taupo last blew in around the year 232 AD, it was the biggest eruption on earth in the last 5,000 years.

The Taupo volcano spewed more than 100 cubic kilometres of material into the atmosphere when it last erupted around 200 BCE, devastating a large area of New Zealand's central North Island in a ...

The Taupo volcano spewed more than 100 cubic kilometres of material into the atmosphere when it last erupted around 200 AD, devastating a large area of New Zealand's central North Island in a ...

According to the New Zealand Crown Research Institutes, it covered areas more than 100km away with of pyroclastic flow. Today, the Taupo super volcano remains active, and is now 800 years overdue ...