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In which even with warnings volcanologists typically classify eruptions based on the amount of material they spew, be it lava or chunks of rock and ash.

Where the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VSI) ranges from 0 to 8. So 0 meaning the eruption is non-explosive – lava just flows, with 8 meaning it blasts 111,000 cubic kilometers or more of rock and ash, where, therefore, a "super volcano" is any volcano that has had one of these magnitude 8 eruptions in the past.

The same happened when, towards the previous year, in the year 2022, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines exploded generating a cloud of ash 10,000 kilometers high, with the eruption killing 11,350 people and their ashes, blocking the sunlight. , cooled the entire world by about 50°C for over a year.