What is a Supervolcano? A supervolcano is a volcano that can produce an eruption of magnitude greater than 8 on the Volcanic ...

and it may have been similar in its effects to other mass extinction events in our planet’s history. However, the amazing story of the Toba eruption, and its aftereffects, is one that few people ...

The Youngest Toba eruption was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred around ... The Toba catastrophe theory holds that this event caused a global volcanic winter of six to ten years and possibly a ...

but these are not mass extinction events that are going to drive life off planet Earth.' 'In the big eruption that occurred 76,000 years ago on Toba in Indonesia. There was a species of hominid ...

Recent study suggests humans migrated out of Africa during arid period post-Toba eruption, challenging previous assumptions about dispersal.