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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; romanized: Tao Toba) is a large natural lake in North Sumatra, Indonesia, occupying the caldera of the Toba supervolcano.
Excavations at the Shinfa-Metema 1 site have revealed that a population of humans survived the eruption of the Mount Toba supervolcano 74,000 years ago. - John Kappelman and Marsha Miller.
A supervolcano is a volcano that has had an eruption with a ... Toba catastrophe theory – Volcanic supereruption 74,000 years ago in Indonesia Volcanic ...
Eruptions the size of that at Lake Toba 74,000 years ago, at least 2,800 cubic kilometres ... It is the only known supervolcano located directly on the mid-ocean ridge.
An iconic volcano is an exploding mountain — think Vesuvius or Washington's Mount Saint Helens, which erupted in 1980 — but supervolcanoes typically look unassuming. ... like the Toba eruption ...
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 eruption of Mount Agung on the island of Bali has sparked worldwide interest on possible other eruptions from the globe's volcanoes.