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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.
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]
Iceland volcano could erupt like a ‘can of fizzy drink’ Monday 20 November 2023 22:00 , Matt Mathers A volcano close to erupting in Iceland could explode like a “can of fizzy drink,” an ...
Evacuation zone ‘still dangerous’ as eruption could happen with only minutes’ notice, warns civil defence official
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
The evacuation zone in Iceland is “still dangerous”, a civil protection official has told The Independent, with current conditions leaving just a few minutes’ warning of a feared volcano ...