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Youngest Toba eruption - Wikipedia The Toba eruption (also called the Toba supereruption and the Youngest Toba eruption) was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred around 74,000 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene, [2] at the site of present-day Lake Toba, in Sumatra, Indonesia
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Geo Explainer: Toba supervolcano, the biggest eruption in human history Toba is one of 20 supervolcanos on Earth today, the most famous being Yellowstone in the USA A supervolcano is one that, at some point in history, released more than 1,000 cubic kilometres of magma during an eruption (a ‘supereruption’)
Mount Toba | Eruption, Volcano, Activity, Map | Britannica Mount Toba, ancient volcano located in the Barisan Mountains, north-central Sumatra, Indonesia A massive eruption sometime between 71,000 and 74,000 years ago expelled an estimated 2,800 cubic km (about 670 cubic miles) of ash and lava
How Indonesia’s Toba Volcano Changed Human Evolution Because the hidden history encoded in our DNA pointed to the near-extinction event for Homo sapiens occurring 50,000–100,000 years ago, Toba was the most obvious suspect
The Most Extreme Volcanic Eruption in Ancient History Roughly 74,000 years ago, the Toba supervolcano erupted on the island of Sumatra in modern-day Indonesia, releasing an enormous amount of ash into the atmosphere This ash settled in different
Global Volcanism Program | Toba Toba is Earth's largest Quaternary caldera and is partially filled by Lake Toba, seen here in a NASA Landsat satellite image (N is to the top) The 35 x 100 km caldera formed during four major ignimbrite-forming eruptions in the Pleistocene, the latest of which occurred about 74,000 years ago
74,000 Years Ago Humanity Nearly Died: Toba Supervolcano Eruption . . . The Toba supereruption stands as one of the largest volcanic events recorded in Earth’s history Occurring approximately 74,000 years ago on the island of Sumatra in modern-day Indonesia, the eruption ejected an estimated 672 cubic miles of ash into the stratosphere
The Toba Catastrophe: Supervolcano, Volcanic Winter, and the Near-Miss . . . Today, Lake Toba in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, looks like a serene highland lake about 100 km long and 30 km wide, with a large island (Samosir) sitting in the middle That entire basin is the collapsed scar of a VEI-8 supervolcano—the highest category on the Volcanic Explosivity Index A few key facts: Location: Sumatra, Indonesia (on the Sunda arc, where the Indo-Australian plate