So we had an early start this morning to get up at about 4am
and we 've driven into a massive crater which is filled with a lake.
You can hear the water lapping against the shore here and we 're getting on a boat and we 're going to get on this boat
and go into the middle of the lake.
Hello and welcome to CrowdScience from the BBC World Service,
the show that goes the distance to answer your science questions,
even if it means travelling to an active volcano, which is exactly what we 're doing this week.
So this huge crater that we're in now, this is actually part of a massive volcano that erupted.
Thousands of years ago.
I'm Anand Jagatia, and I'm on my way to the centre of Tal Volcano,
the second most active volcano in the whole of the Philippines.
And it's to help us answer this listener question.
Hello, I'm Crystal.
I'm originally from Sweden, Malmö, but now I live in Florida in the United States.
And my question for crowd science is, when will the next supervolcano erupt?
Well, this is a cool question and a slightly sort of terrifying sounding one.
I don't really think I know what a supervolcano is.
What do you understand a supervolcano to be and where did this question come from?
Well as i mentioned i'm swedish and i was watching a program on the history of sweden and they mentioned that in 536
there was a series of gigantic volcano eruptions first in the northern hemisphere and then in the tropics