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] at the site of present-day Lake Toba, in Sumatra, Indonesia.

2025年3月19日 · 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 expelled an estimated 2,800 cubic km (about 670 cubic miles) of ash and lava.

2025年1月24日 · On the very bad day in question, one particular volcano, now known as Mount Toba, had been active for a long time. It had bulged up gradually until it towered almost 3,000 feet above the...

2024年4月29日 · A dramatic 2020 eruption of Kīlauea was nothing compared with Indonesia’s Toba supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago, the largest eruption of the past 2.5 million years.

2021年7月12日 · The explosion of the Toba supervolcano, located on the modern island of Sumatra, some 74,000 years ago was Earth's largest volcanic eruption in the past 28 million years. Parts of Indonesia,...

The 35 x 100 km Toba volcano, the Earth's largest Quaternary caldera, was formed during four major Pleistocene ignimbrite-producing eruptions beginning at 1.2 million years ago. The latest of these produced the Young Toba Tuff (YTT) about 74,000 years ago from vents at the NW and SE ends of present-day Lake Toba.

2024年4月9日 · Deep within the Indonesian island of Sumatra lies a sleeping giant: the Toba supervolcano. It is responsible for the largest known explosive eruption in human history, which took place 74,000 years ago.

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.

Some 73,000 years ago, the huge dome of Mount Toba, in today's Sumatra, Indonesia, began to rumble. A deep vibration shook the entire island. Jets of steam and ash emanated from the summit, followed by an explosion louder than any sound heard by Homo sapiens since our species evolved on Earth.

2021年4月12日 · We show that the Toba volcanic plume caused massive ozone (O 3) loss and produced hostile UV radiation conditions at the Earth’s surface, particularly in the tropics.