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 ...

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

as the frequency of such events is around once every 17,000 years. It’s not a matter of if another one will occur, but when.

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