Article: Lola's eruption: this effects house, known for recreating natural disasters, takes on Yellowstone in BBC One's Supervolcano.(ENGLISH BEAT)(British Broadcasting Corp.)

LONDON -- Step off the cold London streets into the effects house Lola, and, naturally, you have no idea of the cataclysmic scenes that have been taking place there for months. Yet the events depicted in the BBC One production Supervolcano certainly look convincing--even experts say it's how they would expect it to be. Supervolcanos can dwarf all other forms of natural disasters, including tsunamis and strikes by asteroids, wiping out millions and changing what remains of life on Earth for years. Not only that but, measured on Earth's four billion-year time-line, such events happen quite frequently--every 60,000 years.

The BBC factual drama is based on a possible ...

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