Toba Supervolcano or Mount Toba, this is one of the biggest contributors to the explosion in the last two million years. This giant volcanic explosion with a terrible eruption created a crater up to 90 kilometers in length.
But is it true that the explosion almost wiped out humanity?
How big was the Toba Supervolcano Eruption?
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The eruption of Mount Krakatau was so severe that it caused a tsunami as high as 40 meters. But even then it turned out to be still inferior to Mount Tambora. Volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Tambora blanketed the world to make the earth a year without a summer.
While the power of the Toba Supervolcano eruption is 100 times that of the eruptions of Mount Krakatau and Mount Tambora. In fact, not only once did this giant mountain erupt. Recorded up to four eruptions in the last one million years.
Then, is it true that this eruption also almost made our species extinct? The answer is yes.
Although there is much debate about this theory, what is clear is that the eruption of the giant Toba mountain had a super terrifying impact on the world. The eruption for days made volcanic ash float in the sky so that sunlight could not penetrate into the earth. As a result, a long winter hit, and this lasted for decades.
The ash from the eruption also damaged vegetation, causing starvation even hundreds of years later. Then, how many humans are left as a result of the super giant eruption? And how do they survive?
History records that at that time only a third of the population could survive, aka only tens of thousands. They survive by living on the shores of the warmer seas in southern Africa, while looking for every way to get through this disaster.
And surprisingly, genetic evidence suggests that even modern humans were born from a population of only thousands from about 60,000 years ago. Mount Toba has now changed its appearance. Tens of thousands of years passed, the giant mountain turned into a lake no less big.
Even though it almost wiped out many species on earth. The result of the eruption is also what is now fertilizing the Toba land. Maybe even all of Southeast Asia. [*]
