It’s not a matter of if another one will occur, but when. The team's research focused on the Toba super-eruption, which ...

Early humans may have flourished after the largest volcanic eruption in history, according to new research. Mount Toba erupted in Indonesia about 74,000 years ago. The event was long thought to ...

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 ...

Ancient tools discovered in northern India provide new evidence that humans were able to survive one of the largest volcanic events in human history — the Toba supervolcano eruption. The Toba ...

even those introduced by the Toba volcanic super-eruption of 74,000 years ago,” he adds. Kappelman’s team first came across the Shinfa-Metema 1 site in 2002. Excavations revealed fossil ...

When Toba erupted 74,000 years ago, winds blew ash all the way to India. So if all the supervolcanoes go off at once, volcanic debris would spread across the globe. When the eruption ends ...

Getty Images The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora killed more than 70,000 people Lake Toba, at the other end of Sumatra, tells a still more sinister story. It was formed by a truly massive super ...