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A supervolcano erupted 74,000 years ago. Here’s how humans survived it.
even those introduced by the Toba volcanic super-eruption of 74,000 years ago.” The date of the site is only one piece of the puzzle. Scientists also chemically analyzed fossilized remains of ...
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What if all the world's supervolcanoes erupted at once
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 ...
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Humanity May Have Flourished After Supervolcano Eruption
The biggest volcanic eruption in the last 2 million years occurred some 74,000 years ago when Mount Toba, a supervolcano in Indonesia, blew its top, spewing massive volumes of rocks and ash across the ...