Earth is pretty stable in comparison. Yeah, we have had pretty big events but the biggest threat is a big volcano, a meteor, pretty noticable and relatively small.

The whole planet exploding, however? Lava flowing across the whole planet at the same time? Hilariously catastrophic.

For those interested in Si-Fi novels, there's a recent hugo award winning trilogy, The Broken Earth Series[1]. It imagines a world that is much more geologically active than earth, with much more frequent cataclysmic events, and what that would mean for the development of civilization, culture, society, and even the evolution of life.

1 - https://www.goodreads.com/series/112296-the-broken-earth

> Lava flowing across the whole planet at the same time?

The relevant question from the GP was, how long ago was the last time this happened on Venus? Because we've got something similar here around 60 million years ago.