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An archaeological site in Ethiopia has revealed that a population of humans survived the eruption of Sumatra’s Mount Toba 74,000 years ago. One of the largest eruptions in Earth’s history ...
The Toba eruption (also called the Toba supereruption and the Youngest Toba eruption) was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred about 74,000 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene, [2] at the site of present-day Lake Toba, in Sumatra, Indonesia.
The Icelandic Met Office has updated its readings for earthquakes recorded today. At 11.30am, it reported there had been around 180 minor earthquakes near the dike in the Grindavik region so far ...
Evacuation zone ‘still dangerous’ as eruption could happen with only minutes’ notice, warns civil defence official
A supervolcano is a volcano that has had an eruption with a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 8, [1] the largest recorded value on the index. This means the volume of deposits for such an eruption is greater than 1,000 cubic kilometers (240 cubic miles).
The Toba eruption (the Toba event) occurred at what is now Lake Toba about 73,700±300 years ago. [15] It was the last in a series of at least four caldera-forming eruptions at this location, with the earlier known caldera having formed around 1.2 million years ago. [16]
Fresh new earth is pouring from the ground in Iceland. And you can watch this lava splattering and flowing live on YouTube. Icelandic scientists put up a webcam on Saturday near a newly opened ...
Toba supereruption Pleistocene human population bottleneck Toba catastrophe theory Bcndz5 09:28, 5 April 2023 (UTC) Maybe, considering that recent studies on the Toba supereruption have dramatically increased its volume estimates, and has been mentioned to be among the largest ignimbrites ever discovered.