s t cause continents to break up.
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e ely noto compare it to. t blast in recent times ofKrakatau in Indonesia in August 1883, ed around ter slos if you imagineted material from Krakatau as being about t of tone blasts about St. han a pea.
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t Yelloone eruption covered all or parts of nineteen ernstates (plus parts of Canada and Mexico)—nearly ted States of t of America, an area t produces roug is like a big sno in ted to grooput all t took t monto clear 1.8 billion tons of debrisfrom teen acres of trade Center site in Ne ake to clear Kansas.
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