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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.
About 74,000 years ago, Sumatra’s Mount Toba experienced a super-eruption, one of the largest in Earth’s history, potentially kicking off a massive disruption in the world’s climate ...
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.
Known as a super eruption for its magnitude, the event emptied out enough volcanic material to produce the 30-by-40-mile-wide caldera. The National Park Service said the eruption covered an area ...
Grey's Landing Supereruption 8.72 Located in southern Idaho >2,800: One of 2 previously unknown Yellowstone hotspot Supereruptions; Largest Yellowstone eruption. [24] Pacana Caldera—Atana ignimbrite 4 Chile 2,800 Forms a resurgent caldera. [25] Mangakino Caldera—Kidnappers ignimbrite 1.01 Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand 2,760 [26]
Scientists are tracking changes at the giant supervolcano that lies under Yellowstone National Park, but they say there's no need to worry at the moment. “The western part of the Yellowstone ...
Lake Toba Caldera: Sunda Arc, Sumatra 2,800 - 5,300 [13] 74 Youngest Toba Tuff [b] 6 Barrier Volcano: Great Rift Valley, Kenya: 10 74 caldera formation 6 Kuttara Hokkaidō > 11 DRE 75 Kt-4 6 Phlegraean Fields Campanian volcanic arc 12.35 80 CA-1a Tephra 6 Bolshoy Semyachik: Kamchatka: 42 80 Bol'shoi Semiachik Caldera II 6 Hakone: Honshū: 10
Toba Caldera is one of twenty geoparks in Indonesia, [2] and was recognised in July 2020 as one of the UNESCO Global Geoparks. [3] [4] [5] Lake Toba is the site of a supervolcanic eruption estimated at VEI 8 that occurred 69,000 to 77,000 years ago, [6] [7] [8] representing a climate-changing event.