Lake Toba Supervolcano Eruption
Mount toba ancient volcano located in north central sumatra indonesia.
Lake toba supervolcano eruption. Lake toba is 100km long 30km wide and 505 meters deep. About 70 000 years ago the toba supervolcano erupted in what is now indonesia. Danau toba is a large natural lake in north sumatra indonesia occupying the caldera of a supervolcano the lake is located in the middle of the northern part of the island of sumatra with a surface elevation of about 900 metres 2 953 ft the lake stretches from to the lake is about 100 kilometres 62 miles long 30 kilometres 19 mi wide and up to 505 metres. The first eruption was around 1 2 million years ago.
The site of a super volcano eruption around 70 000 years ago. Toba volcano has produced the largest known volcanic eruption on earth during the past 2 million years. The youngest toba eruption was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred around 75 000 years ago at the site of present day lake toba in sumatra indonesia it is one of the earth s largest known explosive eruptions the toba catastrophe theory holds that this event caused a global volcanic winter of six to ten years and possibly a 1 000 year long cooling episode. The eruption led to the final formation of one of earths largest calderas the 35x100 km wide toba caldera.
About 74 000 years bp more than 2500 cubic kilometers of magma were erupted. An eruption between 71 000 and 74 000 years ago expelled roughly 2 800 cubic km about 670 cubic miles of ash and lava which according to some scientists plunged the planet into an ice age that nearly caused the extinction of modern humans. Lake toba as seen from the north picture by adonara mucek it is quite an interesting story especially as origin stories go. Around 74 000 years ago a volcano called toba in sumatra exploded and some scientists think it had a serious impact on the human population and some don t.
After the eruption the ground collapsed and left behind a depression called a caldera which is not filled by lake. A massive eruption at lake toba supervolcano will occur again but it is unlikely to happen for thousands of years scientists have said. Well what we see at toba is actually a result of 4 huge eruptions imprinted one on top of the other. A model has shown how a large magma reservoir is growing.
But how did geologists think lake toba formed.