Toba Catastrophe. In this video we will show one of the most destructive events in the history of the planet earth. The toba super eruption was the biggest volcanic blast on earth within the past 25 million years.
The youngest toba eruption was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred around 75000 years ago at the site of present day lake toba in sumatra indonesiait is one of the earths largest known explosive eruptionsthe toba catastrophe theory holds that this event caused a global volcanic winter of six to ten years and possibly a 1000 year long cooling episode. More recent studies have cast doubt on this theory and found no. The toba volcano super eruption possibly the largest volcanic explosion in earths young or old history.
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More recent studies have cast doubt on this theory and found no. In 1993 science journalist ann gibbons posited that a population bottleneck occurred in human evolution about 70000 years ago and she suggested that this was caused by the eruption. The toba catastrophe was the largest volcanic eruption in the last 26 million years. It is called a catastrophe because its effects may have damaged the human species.