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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.
Lake Toba (Indonesian: Danau Toba, Toba Batak: ᯖᯀᯬ ᯖᯬᯅ; ... The Origin of Lake Toba is a folk story about the lake, in which once upon a time, there was a ...
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 .
Lake Toba is the site of early catastrophic eruptions and a current lake and crater in Sumatra in Indonesia; Pages in category "Lake Toba" The following 9 pages are ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) -One person died and 11 were missing after flash floods hit near Lake Toba in Indonesia's North Sumatra province, the country's disasters agency BNPB said, with scores of people ...
Toba Batak houses near Lake Toba. Batak Toba culture centres on Lake Toba and the sacred island of Samosir that lies within it. Jabu is the Toba language word for rumah adat. The houses are made up of three sections. A substructure of large wooden pillars resting on flat stones (or concrete nowadays) protects the structure from rising dampness.
The Uluan Peninsula extends into Lake Toba on the northeastern side toward Medan, in Simalungun Regency and Toba Samosir Regency of North Sumatra province. It has experienced a large amount of uplift because of a series of massive volcanic eruptions that began 1.2 million years ago.
Warning: This post contains spoilers for eps. 1 and 2 of Apple's Lady in the Lake. In Lady in the Lake, the new show releasing on Apple TV+ on July 19, two chilling murders change the course of a ...