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4 gru 2023 · Officials said Sunday that 11 people are still missing. Tons of mud, rocks and trees rolled down from a mountain late Friday triggered by torrential rain, reaching a river that burst its banks and...
Lake Toba is the site of a supervolcanic eruption estimated at VEI 8 that occurred 69,000 to 77,000 years ago, [6] [7] [8] representing a climate-changing event. Recent advances in dating methods suggest a more accurate identification of 74,000 years ago as the date. [ 9 ]
18 lip 2023 · The Indonesian Young Toba Tuff (YTT), classically dated around 74 ka BP, is considered as a short-lived explosive cataclysmic super-eruption. The huge amounts of ash and SO 2 emitted are...
9 kwi 2024 · Visitors to the site of the Toba supervolcano in Sumatra today will find mostly water. The volcano’s caldera (the large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption) is home to the largest volcanic lake on Earth, measuring about 100 kilometres long, 30 kilometres wide, and up to 505 ...
Toba has been called a supervolcano due to its large magnitude eruption. A magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred under Lake Toba on 06 March 2022. The focus was at a depth of 155 km, and epicentre 9 km east of Parapat. A magnitude 4.9 earthquake occurred under Lake Toba on 27 March 2021.
5 gru 2023 · The YTT emplaced about 2500-3000 cu km (dense rock equivalent) of ignimbrite and airfall ash from vents at the NW and SE ends of present-day Lake Toba. After the YTT eruption, resurgent doming formed the massive Samosir Island and Uluan Peninsula structural blocks.
17 lis 2021 · One of these volcanoes hides below the waters of Lake Toba in Sumatra and has caused two super-eruptions in the last one million years. But when will the next one be? Will there be any warning signs?
