The Toba eruption (also called the Toba supereruption and the Youngest Toba eruption) was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred around 74,000 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene, [2] …

Oct 16, 2025 · Mount Toba, ancient volcano located in the Barisan Mountains, north-central Sumatra, Indonesia. A massive eruption sometime between 71,000 and 74,000 years ago …

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Apr 9, 2024 · Toba is one of 20 supervolcanos on Earth today, the most famous being Yellowstone in the USA. A supervolcano is one that, at some point in history, released more …

Apr 29, 2024 · Because the hidden history encoded in our DNA pointed to the near-extinction event for Homo sapiens occurring 50,000–100,000 years ago, Toba was the most obvious …

Apr 24, 2025 · Roughly 74,000 years ago, the Toba supervolcano erupted on the island of Sumatra in modern-day Indonesia, releasing an enormous amount of ash into the atmosphere. …

Toba is Earth's largest Quaternary caldera and is partially filled by Lake Toba, seen here in a NASA Landsat satellite image (N is to the top). The 35 x 100 km caldera formed during four …

Toba caldera produced the largest eruption in the last 2 million years. The caldera is 18 x 60 miles (30 by 100 km) and has a total relief of 5,100 feet (1700 m).

Sep 16, 2025 · The Toba supereruption stands as one of the largest volcanic events recorded in Earth’s history. Occurring approximately 74,000 years ago on the island of Sumatra in modern …

“Toba is the largest eruption on Earth in the last two million years,” says Gene Smith, a geologist at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. However, some humans not only survived but thrived …