Rewriting Earth’s History: New Evidence Reveals Mount Toba’s Super-Eruption Caused Minimal Climate Disruption
Executive Overview Roughly 74,000 years ago, a catastrophic geological event unfolded in what is now Sumatra, Indonesia. The Mount Toba super-eruption—the largest volcanic cataclysm on Earth in the last 2.6 million years—expelled thousands of cubic kilometers of magma into the atmosphere in a mere two weeks. To put this colossal output into perspective, it released…