Things Built On SuperVolcanoes
Submitted by Robert Bast on November 19, 2012 – 7:28 pmNo Comment
I didn’t know some of these, so thanks to Cracked for their post 6 Important Things That We Built On Top of Supervolcanoes:
- Lake Taupo – this supervolcano is located in the middle of New Zealand’s North Island, which is home to 80% of the population. Next time it erupts, population will decrease for sure!
- Naples / The Phlegraean Fields – yep, they built a famous city right next to a massive volcano.
- Mammoth Mountain Ski Area / Long Valley – at least it isn’t a city, but it is a ski resort that sits within a supervolcano.
- Guatemala City / Atitlan Caldera – this major central American city is just 70 miles from a supervolcano.
- Tanegashima Space Center / Kikai Caldera – I didn’t even know Japan had a space center, but they built it right next door to an undersea supervolcano.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory / Valles Caldera – yep, that’s where they developed to atomic bomb, way before the term supervolcano was coined.
