What is the difference between a super-volcano and a regular volcano?

Answer 1

The main difference between the two is size. Supervolcanoes are normally 30 times stronger that a regular volcano and can produce enough ash to cover the world. A supervolcano is a VEI8, and ejects over 1 trillion tons of material. Also, supervolcanoes don't have the cone shape.

Answer 2

Normal volcanoes have a classic cone shape.

Supervolcanoes are very large volcanoes that they can only be identified from space/air they do not have a cone shape they form a dome.

Incorrect, supervolcanoes are in the form of a caldera, a sunken area in the ground, usually round in shape, with a raised rim. Yellowstone for example is 100km in diameter

Normal volcanoes eject millions of tons of ash into the air.

Supervolcanoes eject billions of tons of ash into the air.

Learn facts and figures and ignore this guy. A supervolcano by definition must be able to eject at least 1,000 cubic kilometers of material. In any reasonable world, you'd be asked for the volume of the material, not the weight.

Normal volcanoes can cover ash over an entire state

Supervolcanoes can cover ash almost an entire country

BEEP BEEP MORON, as I said before a supervolcano must be capable of ejecting so much material. The spread and cover can vary greatly depending on winds and air pressure.

Clearly someone needs to learn Geography before answering geographical questions.

actually they do mostly ask for weight...

Answer 3

A supervolcano is on average 500,000 times bigger than a normal volcano. To give an exmaple, the Yellowstone supervolcano, when it erupts will shoot 60,000 times more ash into the air and the ash will cover the globe. The next Yellowstone supervolcano is 30,000 year overdue.

Answer 4

How is the distribution of super volcanoes different from that of volcanoes