If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...
Seventy-four thousand years ago, the Earth changed in a flash.The Toba volcano supereruption, an explosive event in what is now Indonesia, blanketed the skies in ash, cooled the climate, and brought ...
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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jayde N. Hirniak, Arizona State University (THE CONVERSATION) If you were lucky 74,000 ...