Lake Toba Volcano Eruption
About 74 000 years bp more than 2500 cubic kilometers of magma were erupted.
Lake toba volcano eruption. Toba volcano has produced the largest known volcanic eruption on earth during the past 2 million years. The toba catastrophe theory suggests the event killed most humans living at the time. Well what we see at toba is actually a result of 4 huge eruptions imprinted one on top of the other. The eruption vei 8 registering as the largest in 25 million years.
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. Mount toba ancient volcano located in north central sumatra indonesia. The first eruption was around 1 2 million years ago. Lake toba as seen from the north picture by adonara mucek it is quite an interesting story especially as origin stories go.
Lake toba is 100km long 30km wide and 505 meters deep. 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 site of a super volcano eruption around 70 000 years ago. 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.
In 1949 when a dutch geologist discovered massive deposits of volcanic rock around lake toba on the indonesian island of sumatra. Lake toba was formed after a super eruption 74 000 years ago.