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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 ]
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 lake and island were formed after the eruption of the Toba supervolcano some 75,000 years ago. [2] At 630 square kilometres (243 sq mi), Samosir is the largest island within an island and the fourth largest lake island in the world. [3] It also contains two smaller lakes, Lake Sidihoni and Lake Aek Natonang .
To turn Lake Toba into a top tourism spot, the agency requires a budget of 21 trillion Rupiah (US$1.3 billion). [ 5 ] The BPODT's exercise of authority has faced significant criticism by indigenous communities who raised concerns about being excluded from the development process, viewing the agency's projects as unilateral decisions not taking ...
Lake Toba is the site of early catastrophic eruptions and a current lake and crater in Sumatra in Indonesia Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lake Toba . Pages in category "Lake Toba"
Satellite image of Lake Toba, the site of a VEI 8 eruption c. 75,000 years ago Cross-section through Long Valley Caldera. Supervolcanoes occur when magma in the mantle rises into the crust but is unable to break through it. Pressure builds in a large and growing magma pool until the crust is unable to contain the pressure and ruptures.
Animation of an analogue experiment showing the origin of a volcanic caldera in box filled with flour Landsat image of Lake Toba, on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia (100 km/62 mi long and 30 km/19 mi wide, one of the world's largest calderas).
Toba, an area in Northern Sumatra that is now included in the Toba Samosir Regency. Lake Toba, a lake in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and site of the volcanic Toba eruption 75,000 years ago; Toba catastrophe theory, according to which modern human evolution was affected by the Toba eruption; Toba, Mie, a city in Mie prefecture, Japan