The GREATEST explosion of Mount In History

Apparently, the explosion of Mount Toba is the GREATEST In History - Who is not familiar with Lake Toba, it comes from the eruption of Mount Toba. Mount Toba is classified as supervolcano mountain, it is because of Mount Toba has large pockets of magma and when explode it has a huge caldera.

Mount Toba is
under the bottom of Lake Toba in North Sumatra, which may sometimes be able to erupt. Mount Toba is still have a child, even Sinabung erupted some time ago and Mount Sibayak are the son of Mount Toba.

Formerly Mount Toba erupted three times:

• The first eruption occurred about 800 thousand years ago. This eruption produced the caldera in the south of Lake Toba, covering Porsea and Prapat area.
• The second eruption which has a smaller force, occurred 500 thousand years ago. The eruption formed a caldera in the north of Lake Toba. Precisely in the area between the Haranggaol and Silalahi. Of the two eruptions, the last eruption was the most powerful.
• The third eruption 74,000 years ago produced the caldera, and became Lake Toba with Samosir Island in the middle.

The eruption of Mount Toba volcanic was the most powerful ever known on the Earth. And it is almost wiped out generations of mankind on the Earth. 73,000 years ago Supervolcano eruption of Indonesia's nearly wiping out the entire human race, only a few survive. Virulence eruption of Toba is very popular and it is one of the greatest volcano eruptions on the planet. At that time the sun reportedly shut for 6 years.

These eruptions cannot be compared with anything that has been experienced on earth since the time when humans could walk. Even Krakatau that caused tens of thousands of deaths in 1883 is just a little burp. Krakatau has explosive power equivalent to 150 megatons of TNT. For comparison: Bomb blast Hiroshima has only 0.015 megatons of explosive power, and the power of destruction a verbal 10,000 times weaker than Krakatau. The eruption of Mount Toba nearly exterminated mankind 73.000 years ago.

Along with the huge tsunami waves, there are 2800 cubic kilometers of ash were released, which spread throughout the atmosphere of our planet. This may have reduced the human population to only 5,000 or 10,000 people.

Actually people today are from a few thousand human survivors of a super volcano Toba eruption 73,000 years ago.Therefore volcanoes in Indonesia are responsible for almost extinction of the human race. And from 60 to 70 volcanoes which can found in the area (Indonesia) now.

Some of them became active again in a few months or a few weeks after the earthquake in December 2004.The eruption of Mount Toba that led to the emergence of Lake Toba, that is the largest lake in Indonesia, even in Southeast Asia and has such a beautiful sight. In the middle of this lake there is an island called the island of Samosir, a Batak tribe originally located.

The formation of Lake Toba in the Past

Lake that called Toba extends beautifully in the region of North Sumatra. But beside that, in the past, the power of the Most Powerful damaged hidden inside. Approximately less than 74,000 years ago, Mount Toba was erupted very great and almost finished mankind.

that giant volcanic eruptions (Supervolcano) come from the turbulence beneath the. Indo-Australian Plate ocean sediment layers containing crash beneath the Eurasian continental plate, the seat of Sumatra Island, at 7 centimeters every year.

Attrition two plates at a depth of about 150 kilometers below the earth's heat create a melt rocks, then run to the top as the magma. More sediment to get into, more sources the magma throw.

A gigantic Toba magma pocket, supplied by large continental plates which are hyperactive. Collaboration of three researchers from the German Center for Geosciences (GFZ) with Danny Hilman of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and the governor of the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) in 2010 concluded that under the Toba caldera there are two magma chambers.

This Magma chamber is estimated have a volume of at least 34,000 cubic kilometers of magma

Not only affected by the volcanic activity of the magma chamber, Toba Caldera was also strongly influenced by tectonic activity, so the geologists call a volcano-tectonic.

Collision of tectonic plates from the Indo-Australian has triggered the formation of large shear fault known as the Great Sumatran Fault Zone (Sumatra Fault Zone / SFZ). This fault extends 1,700 kilometers from the Gulf of Lampung, to Aceh. Almost all volcanoes in Sumatra standing on this giant fault.

But, Toba Caldera was not exactly on top of this fault. It strayed a few kilometers to the northeast Sumatra seas. "Between the River Barumun and Wampu, Mountains (which stood on the fault) suddenly widened and there that make removal of the plateau; length of 275 km and 150 km wide called Batak Tumor," said Van Bemmelen, Dutch geologists in 1939 for the first time suggested that the Toba is a volcano montain.

These Appointment Batak tumors, called Bemmelen, a phase of the early formation of Mount Toba. When it happens, some magma out through the cracks beginning to the body mounts. The real bodies of this mountain trail are still visible around Haranggaol, Tongging, and Silalahi. While most of the others have been destroyed when the latest eruption of Toba about 74,000 years ago (Youngest Toba Tuff / YTT).

Lake Toba is clearly influenced by the style of this fault. Lake Toba elongated shape, not round as usual caldera, it shows the influence of fault style shear coincide in this region.

The longest side of the lake, which reaches 90 km, parallel to the Sumatra Fault Zone, which is one of the world most active fault other than the San Andreas Fault in America. Volcanic activity in Sumatra, including Toba, controlled by this fault.

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