About 74,000 years ago, Sumatra’s Mount Toba experienced a super-eruption, one of the largest in Earth’s history, potentially kicking off a massive disruption in the world’s climate. Some scientists ...
Mount Toba erupted in Indonesia about 74,000 years ago. The event was long thought to have caused a volcanic winter, drastically reducing the global human population at the time. Recent excavations in ...
The most catastrophic volcanic eruption in the last 2 million years may owe its superpower to stacks of hot molten rock layered like the jelly filling inside a sky-high wedding cake. By recording tiny ...
Supervolcano Mount Toba erupted on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, about 74,000 years ago and caused catastrophic environmental calamity. Most Powerful Volcanic Eruption In The Past 2 Million Years ...
Volcanic activity is difficult to predict, even when it is closely monitored. But researchers now believe a crater's age might offer clues, with older volcanoes producing less frequent but larger and ...
Early humans appear to have survived the eruption of a supervolcano 74,000 years ago and the volcanic winter that followed, researchers have said. By studying stone tools at an archaeological site in ...
On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, there is a large lake that used to be a mountain. How is it that a mountain becomes a lake? Simple: It erupts. This mountain on Sumatra unleashed an utterly ...
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