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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.
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 Year Without a Summer was an agricultural disaster; historian John D. Post called it "the last great subsistence crisis in the Western world". [4] [5] The climatic aberrations of 1816 had their greatest effect on New England (US), Atlantic Canada, and Western Europe.
An archaeological site in Ethiopia has revealed that a population of humans survived the eruption of Sumatra’s Mount Toba 74,000 years ago.
Lake Toba, Sumatra, Indonesia: 840 ka ±30: Oldest Toba Tuff [65] Taupō Volcanic Zone, Mangakino Caldera, North Island, New Zealand: 0.97 Ma: more than 300 km 3 (72.0 cu mi) Rocky Hill Ignimbrite [1] Taupō Volcanic Zone, Mangakino Caldera, North Island, New Zealand: 1.01 Ma: more than 300 km 3 (72.0 cu mi) Unit E [1] Lake Toba, Sumatra ...
Mount Galunggung: 5 Indonesia: 1822 [4] 3,360 Mount Vesuvius: 5 Italy: 1631 1631 eruption of Mount Vesuvius: 3,000 Ritter Island: 2 Papua New Guinea: 1888 1888 Ritter Island eruption and tsunami: 2,957 Mount Papandayan: 3 Indonesia: 1772 [5] 2,942 Mount Lamington: 4 Papua New Guinea: 1951 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington: 2,806 Mount Awu: 3 ...
Lake Toba, the world's biggest volcanic lake, is a popular. JAKARTA (Reuters) -One person died and 11 were missing after flash floods hit near Lake Toba in Indonesia's North Sumatra province, the ...
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