Youngest Toba eruption

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The Toba eruption (also called the Toba supereruption and the Youngest Toba eruption) was a large volcanic eruption that occurred around 74,000 years ago during the Late Pleistocene, at the site of present-day Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia. It was the last in a series of at least four caldera-forming eruptions there, the earlier known caldera having formed about 1.2 million years ago. The eruption had an estimated volcanic explosivity index of 8, making it the largest known explosive volcanic eruption in the Quaternary and one of the largest known explosive eruptions in the Earth's history.

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