The Biggest Volcanic Eruption in Human History

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Around 74,000 years ago, a volcano called Toba in Sumatra exploded, and some scientists think it had a serious impact on the human population and some...don't.
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  • @SciShow
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    5 жыл бұрын

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  • @MrPeabody67

    @MrPeabody67

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hey, I want to give my two cents and a hypothesis as to why humans were seemingly less affected than initially predicted. "Why did the smaller Tambora eruption have a seemingly greater impact (crop failure, famine, cholera, societal unrest, ect), than the far larger Toba event?" My hypothesis is that the difference between these events has something to do with where humans lived at the time. I've had a good look at the Pleistocene Geological record for the Northern Hemisphere. There's something about the Northern Hemisphere that amplifies the effects of sudden climatic change. Sudden cooling events like the Dryas events seem to show up in the Northern geological record hundreds to thousands of years before noticable changes are seen in the Southern atmosphere. If you dont believe me, take a look at the Dryas periods in particular. This leads into the Hypothesis of the Toba catastrophe and explains why few human populations were affected. Human populations hadn't yet expanded into the areas of the planet that were at the most risk of volcanic climate change. Most of those areas were still covered in ice sheets. Had the Toba eruption for sake of argument, occurred during the bronze age, European societies of that time would likely collapse or dissapeare entirely.

  • @admiralcat3809
    @admiralcat38095 жыл бұрын

    Yellowstone: "I am the strongest volcano known!!!" Toba: "Hold my beer..."

  • @nishaindesilva3738

    @nishaindesilva3738

    5 жыл бұрын

    More like hold my magma

  • @infinitycrash8173

    @infinitycrash8173

    4 жыл бұрын

    If yellowstone erup *three times* Toba was erup *four times*

  • @fauzulazim2993

    @fauzulazim2993

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hold my "tuak"

  • @zjean3417

    @zjean3417

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Gacha Yokai studios There Isint a 9 vei. Anyways Toba Ejected 2,800Km3 (Cubic Kilometers) and YellowStone 2450-2500Km3 in their largest eruptions. But The Largest Single SuperVolcano (Not Flood Basalt) Eruption Is La Garita Caldera-Fish Canyon Tuff 27.8 Million Years Ago In Colorado. Ejecting An Estimated 5000KM3 Almost Two Time Much As Yellowstones largest eruption!

  • @zjean3417

    @zjean3417

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Gacha Yokai studios There isint a VEI 9 Max Is Vei 8. Anyways yellowstone biggest boom was 2400-2500km3. Toba was 2800km3. La Garita Was 5000Km3 So If one supervolcano should be vei 9 La Garita is the winner.

  • @DankMatter
    @DankMatter5 жыл бұрын

    The science fair volcano that erupted and spilled all over the room

  • @captiveexile2670

    @captiveexile2670

    5 жыл бұрын

    aw shuck, General, it was "NOTHING" --- as Donald said [ Jeremiah 5:1-12* ]. Harumph!

  • @daritos1294

    @daritos1294

    4 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @achmadhusein389

    @achmadhusein389

    4 жыл бұрын

    Overproud detected

  • @goblinandslimefromTH.

    @goblinandslimefromTH.

    2 жыл бұрын

    And it was white and the volcano was a hotdogs shape with to ball shaped object under it

  • @abdurrahmanf.a.5624
    @abdurrahmanf.a.56245 жыл бұрын

    Toba Tambora Krakatoa All of them in Indonesia. A country with thousands disaster, my home

  • @TheRibbonRed

    @TheRibbonRed

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not to mention the recent tsunami and near future predicted earthquake catastrophe...

  • @gordonlawrence4749

    @gordonlawrence4749

    5 жыл бұрын

    The USA is heading for the same. The San Sndreas fault has stuck and will therefore at some point have an earthquake bigger than the 1906 on but nobody can predict if it will be tomorrow or the next century. Yellowstone is due to blow too. We have even had some minor quakes recently in the UK and that never happened before in living memory.

  • @abdurrahmanf.a.5624

    @abdurrahmanf.a.5624

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@gordonlawrence4749 so that movie might come true apparently, hope you all be safe too

  • @abdurrahmanf.a.5624

    @abdurrahmanf.a.5624

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@TheRibbonRed exactly, we just had two major earthquakes

  • @Boskibro

    @Boskibro

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@gordonlawrence4749 the biggest earthquake threat to the US is actually in Seattle/Portland and Washington/Oregon coast with the cascadia subduction zone. Far more dangerous than the San Andreas.

  • @rizqiizzati1414
    @rizqiizzati14144 жыл бұрын

    Indonesia: *has Toba, Tambora, Krakatoa, etc* Me: Are you okay?

  • @bloemenstadvoetbalbdg9306

    @bloemenstadvoetbalbdg9306

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@twicemomo4849 really? Are u kidding?

  • @bloemenstadvoetbalbdg9306

    @bloemenstadvoetbalbdg9306

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@twicemomo4849 phillipines has 23 active volcanoes. Indonesia has 127 active volcanoes still crazy we are neighbouring to each other

  • @fatah496

    @fatah496

    4 жыл бұрын

    Still alive and kicking dude

  • @red-nb3lj

    @red-nb3lj

    4 жыл бұрын

    I were from toba

  • @bt_tfs

    @bt_tfs

    4 жыл бұрын

    Io which has volcanoes that launches debris 500 kilometers into space and has temperatures of 1,650°C: Pathetic.

  • @kermorin715
    @kermorin7155 жыл бұрын

    Toba was one of the volcanoes to have a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of 8. Anything over a 7 is considered catastrophic.

  • @zjean3417

    @zjean3417

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah. VEI 8 needs minimum 1000km3 of ash ejected and toba did 2800km3.

  • @TheMistralist

    @TheMistralist

    4 жыл бұрын

    Correction. Anything above 6 is catastrophic

  • @wasd1236

    @wasd1236

    3 жыл бұрын

    Next year be like with Mount Vesuvius. Hippty Hoppity VEl 9 is now my property

  • @caiolucas8257

    @caiolucas8257

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheMistralist 6 is bad, but it's effects on climate are much softer(Pinatubo, Krakatoa) compared to 7(Tambora, Rinjani)

  • @fazrilabrarpurnomo2146

    @fazrilabrarpurnomo2146

    Жыл бұрын

    What would happen if a volcano with VEI 9 erupt?

  • @Aereto
    @Aereto5 жыл бұрын

    The more obvious flaw in the Toba theory is the assumption of agriculture, which is more vulnerable to volcanic weather effects than hunter-gathering.

  • @CareyReeve

    @CareyReeve

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ah! Good point. Hunter-gatherers are mobile and opportunistic. Go where food is. Eat what's there. Much more resilient... oh, no. We're in deep poo, now.

  • @soogymoogi

    @soogymoogi

    5 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking this throughout the video, I'm glad someone else in the comments pointed it out!

  • @RipOffProductionsLLC

    @RipOffProductionsLLC

    3 ай бұрын

    There's also just the much simpler explanation that the cause of the apparent genetic bottleneck suffered by non-African humans could just be down to the initial migration being very small for whatever reason.

  • @yurichan6557
    @yurichan65575 жыл бұрын

    Toba: *Dinosaur's worst nightmare* Yellowstone: *Human's the second worst nightmare*

  • @yourmom9283

    @yourmom9283

    5 жыл бұрын

    Toba is like the Yellowstone's big brother

  • @slightlycookedbread

    @slightlycookedbread

    5 жыл бұрын

    Micro transactions: *Humans worst nightmare*

  • @trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761

    @trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761

    5 жыл бұрын

    Toba didn't exist during the Mesozoic Era. On the other hand, the Siberian Traps practically caused Dinosaurs to come into existence.

  • @vin6665

    @vin6665

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gacha Yokai studios Super Saiyan? Are u ok or are u just obsessed with dragon ball

  • @elmo9097

    @elmo9097

    4 жыл бұрын

    herobrine zoro toba was there were humans STOOPID!!!!!!!!!

  • @MichaelSHartman
    @MichaelSHartman5 жыл бұрын

    The Founder Effect has credence, but I am not convinced that the eruption had so little effect when smaller eruptions have had large effects.

  • @PaulPaulPaulson
    @PaulPaulPaulson5 жыл бұрын

    Posted on first of ocTOBA

  • @andrewcushen8379

    @andrewcushen8379

    5 жыл бұрын

    Paul Paulson this is Good Content™️

  • @nocelebrity6042

    @nocelebrity6042

    5 жыл бұрын

    It would only have been better if they uploaded it from Mani*Toba*

  • @iLLeag7e

    @iLLeag7e

    5 жыл бұрын

    Conspiracy confirmed

  • @stanislaskowalski7461
    @stanislaskowalski74615 жыл бұрын

    Did those studies consider the recovery rate of a population? A few years, or even a few decades, are almost imperceptible, if we look back 74,000 years ago. Imagine that the population suffered a 90% drop across 3 deadly winters. We can assume that the climate had returned to normal shortly after, and that during the following decades there was plenty of food. We can also assume that most of the survivors were young adults, fit for reproduction. It is not unlikely that they made a lot of babies. It's possible that the growth rate was at first between 2 or 3% a year. That's between 23 and 35 years to double the population. It would take only a few decades to recover. For comparison, let's take the population of Rwanda or Cambodia a few decades after the genocides. You wouldn't even notice that there was a genocide, just by comparing the figures.

  • @zjean3417

    @zjean3417

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah Toba Caused The Human Population To Go Down to A very dealy near extinct 3000 Humans.

  • @kylealexander7024

    @kylealexander7024

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is a very well thought out comment. Thank u.

  • @wynwilliams6977

    @wynwilliams6977

    2 жыл бұрын

    Pretty sure they considered that dude :) and as stated there seemed to be very little change in human activity and that size of a die off globally would very much of been detectable

  • @gigihsetiawanp62
    @gigihsetiawanp623 жыл бұрын

    *Humans doing normal day to day activity* Toba, Tambora, and Krakatoa: So anyway I started erupting

  • @checkmyplaylist6879
    @checkmyplaylist68795 жыл бұрын

    *Krakatoa decides to dip*

  • @fluffypants5999

    @fluffypants5999

    5 жыл бұрын

    6

  • @tec-jones5445

    @tec-jones5445

    5 жыл бұрын

    *KRAKATOA*

  • @pierrecurie

    @pierrecurie

    5 жыл бұрын

    Krakatoa: ~25 km^3 This thing: 2800 km^3 >100x

  • @TheRibbonRed

    @TheRibbonRed

    5 жыл бұрын

    Living in a country with Krakatoa, Toba, and a recent tsunami in Palu & Donggala + predicted near future Java earthquake catastrophe... Yeah. We're "fine"....

  • @dranoelw

    @dranoelw

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@TheRibbonRed it's Allah's will, the muslims in my country will accept any disaster

  • @akari8666
    @akari86664 жыл бұрын

    Russia: I have the deadliest bomb ever existed on earth Indonesia with the active lake toba: Hold on, just gotta wait for it to Errupts.......

  • @mamimima6511

    @mamimima6511

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nice joke you got there

  • @sebastianelytron8450
    @sebastianelytron84505 жыл бұрын

    SciShow: "Biggest eruption in human history" Eddie Van Halen: "Hold my beer"

  • @mimimarcus

    @mimimarcus

    5 жыл бұрын

    You mean Bret Kavanaugh

  • @shannonm7981

    @shannonm7981

    5 жыл бұрын

    Exactly what I thought when I saw the title.

  • @secularmonk5176

    @secularmonk5176

    5 жыл бұрын

    Toba took it up to a 15 ... REAL FAST!

  • @michelleeelong0075

    @michelleeelong0075

    5 жыл бұрын

    Eddie Van Halen hold my beer Yellowstone No hold MY beer

  • @theshuriken

    @theshuriken

    4 жыл бұрын

    fun fact EVH is half indonesian

  • @leonleeds534
    @leonleeds5345 жыл бұрын

    Glad you mentioned reliance on agriculture right at the end because it would make sense that a hunter gatherer species will have less problems from the cooling than farmers with an event that would affect crops, but not the animal and plant populations.

  • @youryella
    @youryella5 жыл бұрын

    4:19 - "In some ways, our society is more fragile now than it was back then." Yup.

  • @aditisk99

    @aditisk99

    2 жыл бұрын

    Demographically, politically, mentally and emotionally, culturally and somewhat physically, morally and ethically.

  • @mja2239

    @mja2239

    Жыл бұрын

    Yup, how to be both correct and misleading.

  • @tmaiadev
    @tmaiadev5 жыл бұрын

    In Brazil, Toba is slang for "butthole". I laughed through the whole video. God, will I grow up

  • @stevep5408

    @stevep5408

    5 жыл бұрын

    No

  • @SiirEgg

    @SiirEgg

    5 жыл бұрын

    In your defense, that is pretty funny xD

  • @dougwillis5069

    @dougwillis5069

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well i guess the Earth have diarrhoea

  • @afifassihab7953

    @afifassihab7953

    5 жыл бұрын

    hahahaha. :)

  • @thisisajang

    @thisisajang

    5 жыл бұрын

    How about no

  • @irvancrocs1753
    @irvancrocs17535 жыл бұрын

    When you live in country where Mt. Krakatoa, Mt. Tambora, and Lake Toba are located... It's fine, totally fine (put house in fire meme)

  • @ryndraal9256

    @ryndraal9256

    5 жыл бұрын

    Im indonesian

  • @liapurbasari4587

    @liapurbasari4587

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dia ngejek kita

  • @ryndraal9256

    @ryndraal9256

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@liapurbasari4587 gpp

  • @BUNG_DARREN

    @BUNG_DARREN

    5 жыл бұрын

    Tersinggung woi erere

  • @vin6665

    @vin6665

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ah ur insulting us? Its ok

  • @MrMudbill
    @MrMudbill5 жыл бұрын

    Humans are incredibly adaptable, and that's one of our biggest strengths.

  • @erniebuchinski3614
    @erniebuchinski36144 жыл бұрын

    And that Toba always seemed like such a nice, quiet kid. Go figure.

  • @ivanaldorino
    @ivanaldorino3 жыл бұрын

    Just imagine Toba, Krakatoa, and Tambora erupt in the same time.....

  • @shafqatishan437

    @shafqatishan437

    3 жыл бұрын

    Toba would engulf both

  • @KevinVanOrd
    @KevinVanOrd5 жыл бұрын

    Stanley Ambrose was key to developing the Toba catastrophe theory, but he didn't propose it. I think you owe Ann Gibbons a shout-out

  • @awakenedhussar2322
    @awakenedhussar23224 жыл бұрын

    I've been lucky enough to spend a week at Lake Toba. It really is a magnificent place the size is mind boggling.

  • @mark-
    @mark-5 жыл бұрын

    Can you talk about the "Solar storm of 1859" and there being a 12% chance of it happening again in the next 10 years possibly wiping out most satellites and computers and causing trillions of dollars worth of damage

  • @celinak5062

    @celinak5062

    5 жыл бұрын

    Isn't that one of the reasons, phone and internet cables are digged down now

  • @two-face1041

    @two-face1041

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mark E they have kzread.info/dash/bejne/X4uuraObeJrVlM4.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/e5OAw9OYn7XbiZs.html

  • @KimonoSuki

    @KimonoSuki

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@celinak5062 like in the movie "Knowing"?

  • @speedy01247

    @speedy01247

    5 жыл бұрын

    also no more scishow.

  • @gordonlawrence4749

    @gordonlawrence4749

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Celina k it depends on the country. In places where they are likely to get stolen they are deep down but in places like the UK they are not. Also a lot of cell/mobile networks use microwave links not cables between towers. That's why the infrastructure is way cheaper for cell vs land lines. It costs an absolute fortune to put cables in again depending on country. In the UK you not only have to dig the trenches for the cables you have to pay the council for road works control and another company to run the additional traffic lights.

  • @KonradofKrakow
    @KonradofKrakow5 жыл бұрын

    Really good, informative video!

  • @melody-13
    @melody-135 жыл бұрын

    hi, I had a request for a video. Can you talk about dust mites, and why and how they appear wherever humans live, and why we can't eradicate them? I'm very allergic to them and I always wonder how they get in my house in the first place, and if there might be any way to eliminate them in my house for good.

  • @TheExoplanetsChannel
    @TheExoplanetsChannel5 жыл бұрын

    Great video. Awesome channel.

  • @ramswaroopbaggam9844
    @ramswaroopbaggam9844 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent explanation

  • @pozzowon
    @pozzowon5 жыл бұрын

    Unlike 1816, it's somewhat hard to devastate humanity destroying millions of crops if agriculture hadn't been invented yet...

  • @erfanwardana9769

    @erfanwardana9769

    Жыл бұрын

    theres also no animals no tree what you arguing now

  • @jockywochy
    @jockywochy5 жыл бұрын

    What about the Taupo, New Zealand eruption in 178AD? 3200 km3 and ash 1 km thick on the surrounding countryside. Caused crops to fail in Rome and China for three years after.

  • @shaonian

    @shaonian

    5 жыл бұрын

    it was 120km3 according the wiki, the Oruanui eruption was 1170 km3

  • @llamafromspace

    @llamafromspace

    5 жыл бұрын

    Came here to say this too. #noticemesenpai

  • @janestaton5626

    @janestaton5626

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@blackmagnetica8714 I was thinking the same thing. It was the last eruption with the VEI 8.

  • @draz8302

    @draz8302

    4 жыл бұрын

    one of taupos eruptions also turned the volcano from a cone shape stratovolcano into a deep caldera and flattened 20,000 qubic kilometers in the north island or something, idk like the whole north island was effected and pratically the whole north island was covered in pyroclastic flows and lahars.

  • @aron1332

    @aron1332

    4 жыл бұрын

    1170 km3 not 3200km3

  • @felixdubiswolf3371
    @felixdubiswolf33715 жыл бұрын

    Half the video I was just focused on Stefan's shirt because I really like it.

  • @cacodaemonia
    @cacodaemonia5 жыл бұрын

    Great video, as always! That reminds me, can you all do a video about the Deccan Traps? :)

  • @zuko1569
    @zuko15695 жыл бұрын

    Just put some cold water in the volcano and ba da bang ba da boom volcano will stop erupting (sunglass emoji)

  • @monks311

    @monks311

    5 жыл бұрын

    😎

  • @Warriortime1

    @Warriortime1

    5 жыл бұрын

    Wow no that would do nothing

  • @CChissel

    @CChissel

    5 жыл бұрын

    Zuzu profile pic checks out.

  • @tantejunko

    @tantejunko

    5 жыл бұрын

    tis not memecraft

  • @jemmygosal9954

    @jemmygosal9954

    5 жыл бұрын

    that will be dangerous

  • @hi-vz4un
    @hi-vz4un2 жыл бұрын

    Family of volcano in 🇲🇨 Father: Toba Mother : Tambora sister : Rinjani Little sister: Krakatoa Child I: Merapi Child II : Sinabung

  • @michaelrauch8629
    @michaelrauch86295 жыл бұрын

    Love these

  • @just-a-silly-goofy-guy
    @just-a-silly-goofy-guy5 жыл бұрын

    That would be me after taco bell

  • @rere7163

    @rere7163

    5 жыл бұрын

    Why no many like?

  • @ichbinpanzermann2368
    @ichbinpanzermann23685 жыл бұрын

    3 most dangerous mountain:*LIVED IN INDONESIA* Indonesian:*chuckles* im in danger

  • @BUNG_DARREN

    @BUNG_DARREN

    5 жыл бұрын

    Erere im indo

  • @10hamdialmanzaim86

    @10hamdialmanzaim86

    4 жыл бұрын

    Erereee erpan

  • @vincentmalchus3135
    @vincentmalchus31352 жыл бұрын

    If this madness starts im doooooomed

  • @MilesLougheed
    @MilesLougheed3 жыл бұрын

    2020: Would be a shame if a volcano erupted this year.

  • @Baronstone

    @Baronstone

    3 жыл бұрын

    Based on current events, 2021 seems to be starting off much worse than 2020 did

  • @StefanVeenstra
    @StefanVeenstra5 жыл бұрын

    Great timing. Can you talk about the biggest typhoon to ever hit Japan this weekend?

  • @var_eez
    @var_eez4 жыл бұрын

    Lake toba: no one can beat my record! Apolaki: Oh hi lemme introduce myself

  • @tscoffey1
    @tscoffey15 жыл бұрын

    You lead with how the Toba eruption was an order of magnitude larger than Tambora, but then understate by 6 orders of magnitude the amount of sulfur dioxide released ("thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide", when it was billions of tons).

  • @fredalwatkins4506
    @fredalwatkins45063 жыл бұрын

    They've analysed the material from toba and it was low in sulfur which limited the damage done

  • @laxman.mshettigar7738
    @laxman.mshettigar7738 Жыл бұрын

    New studies suggests the Toba was Way bigger than previously thought with 13200 Km3 of Ejected material . Possibly making it a VEI 9 eruption. Ashes from Toba eruption has been found in Africa too.

  • @memangnasibkumenjadisebuah4758
    @memangnasibkumenjadisebuah47585 жыл бұрын

    Humanity: exist Toba tambora and krakatoa: we are about to end this world whole humanity

  • @zjean3417

    @zjean3417

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@justaperson4854 *La Garita Whould like to know your location*

  • @justaperson4854

    @justaperson4854

    4 жыл бұрын

    Toby Jean La Gareta*

  • @toasternfriends3329

    @toasternfriends3329

    4 жыл бұрын

    0/10

  • @atha5782

    @atha5782

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@justaperson4854 Toba: you too well i got a bunch of volcanos ready

  • @juliestanton865
    @juliestanton8655 жыл бұрын

    Someone ought to get this guy a comma for his birthday.

  • @RangerRuby
    @RangerRuby5 жыл бұрын

    Shout out to my boi, Yellowstone National Park. #GoHumans! DFTBA!

  • @captiveexile2670

    @captiveexile2670

    5 жыл бұрын

    Can you imagine the pandemonium as people flee in all directions,? Some will go back to their mansion to collect something like an oil painting . . . but they will die (gasping for air) and be turned into HUMAN FOSSILS. Hey! We human eat the animals all the time, so --- can't they chow down on human liver . . . just once every few hundred thousand years?

  • @dazzifoxking1560
    @dazzifoxking15605 жыл бұрын

    yey a new video!

  • @dss5052
    @dss50522 жыл бұрын

    That GO HUMAN was really nice 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🐱

  • @DJGuatemala83
    @DJGuatemala83 Жыл бұрын

    Tambora was 1815, not 1816... the only reason I know that is ... it is now theorized to have changed the weather globally so drastically, effecting even monumental battles. Waterloo, is one of those events, which occurred in... 1815.

  • @r.s.sudharshan1505
    @r.s.sudharshan15052 жыл бұрын

    Thank you sir...

  • @Master_Therion
    @Master_Therion5 жыл бұрын

    Waiter: Would you like something to drink? Volcano: I would lava cup of tea.

  • @meldelgado462

    @meldelgado462

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @nocelebrity6042

    @nocelebrity6042

    5 жыл бұрын

    Don't spill any and make an "ash" of yourself. Also 4:54. "Trying to unpack natural disasters in the past..." No, I'm going to leave *that* particular baggage alone.

  • @baranorak4080

    @baranorak4080

    5 жыл бұрын

    oh c'mon, LAVA CAKE you had it there then you blew it

  • @theredstonesword984

    @theredstonesword984

    5 жыл бұрын

    Isn't that the Orichalcos sign in your profile picture?

  • @ferryfernandus1423
    @ferryfernandus14233 жыл бұрын

    think it this way, i was born in 1996. and first time seeing toba, its still a god damn lake. and i heard the deep end is like 100-150 metres deep. that alone is a good enough indication to 'how powerful' the toba explosion is to destroy the mountain and even sunk

  • @pushparajaguru3752
    @pushparajaguru37524 жыл бұрын

    Let’s just have a brief moment of 10 seconds for the La Gareth which WAS the most powerful volcano until it went extinct

  • @streamerbtw9561
    @streamerbtw95614 жыл бұрын

    Toba: “ I’m the strongest volcano known” La Greta: “hold my beer”

  • @florinsadelaida1373

    @florinsadelaida1373

    3 жыл бұрын

    IO : The COLLOSAL eruption in Galaxy.

  • @ARHanif-ej7oz

    @ARHanif-ej7oz

    3 жыл бұрын

    Siberian Traps: ....

  • @dsfsfsdfs3292

    @dsfsfsdfs3292

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@florinsadelaida1373 olympus mons can suck Io's volcanoes

  • @WarDog793
    @WarDog793 Жыл бұрын

    Well, thanks a lot, SciShow! There goes my idea for a grand ancient history sci-fi epic! ;-)

  • @deocks4872
    @deocks48725 жыл бұрын

    Couldn’t it simply be that some factor we have not accounted for limited the amount of time the particulates remained airborn?

  • @Kousha
    @Kousha5 жыл бұрын

    I love when the presenters have a more relaxed way of presenting the videos, with more jokes and stuff, like this one and the recent one about those weird aircrafts

  • @ninoradiananta998
    @ninoradiananta9989 ай бұрын

    ❤ THANKS

  • @fractalnomics
    @fractalnomics4 жыл бұрын

    2:43 No evidence in 'Lake Malawi': this is what you would expect and what the hypothesis claims; they were out of the flow of the volcano. Those in the flow were wiped out, not because of climate buy fallout. Those on the windward side survived: the Papuans and Aboriginal Australians. It would explain why these peoples also have high Denisovan DNA.

  • @GabrielaNeme
    @GabrielaNeme5 жыл бұрын

    "Toba" in portuguese is a slang for "ass". Rewatch the video knowing that. 1:28

  • @balinsyam7944

    @balinsyam7944

    5 жыл бұрын

    While toba literally means 'big' for my people. Yeah, I live in toba and most of the girl have big ass.

  • @logiic8835

    @logiic8835

    5 жыл бұрын

    Balin Syam big are u for real?

  • @jemmygosal9954

    @jemmygosal9954

    5 жыл бұрын

    toba in indonesa is well toba it exploded in sumatra,indonesia

  • @ENDPEARL
    @ENDPEARL3 жыл бұрын

    KRAKATOA: I'AM THE BIGGEST TOBA: SERIOUSLY??

  • @wasd1236

    @wasd1236

    3 жыл бұрын

    Vesuvius: Actually, Me

  • @gardenhead92
    @gardenhead925 жыл бұрын

    The genetic bottleneck was caused by Muscle Hank claiming all the world's women for himself

  • @CareyReeve

    @CareyReeve

    5 жыл бұрын

    We don't do that, anymore, boys. Women are kinda like people all on their own. Even *Muscle* Hank wouldn't disrespect half the world's population like that.

  • @kitse_xiii8334

    @kitse_xiii8334

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Nex Russ scraps?

  • @CareyReeve

    @CareyReeve

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dear Child, No woman is a scrap. Your frustration over dating has nothing at all to do with the fact that men do not "claim" women in our society. Don't worry, as you mature and stop looking at women as sex equipment to "access" you'll have better odds of finding a mate.

  • @danaphanous

    @danaphanous

    5 жыл бұрын

    lol, you can tell the statistics are wrong just by thinking about it. You are citing a stat that has to do with "initial interest". I expect that you will similarly find that 80% of men are interested in the top 20% of women, but in both cases it doesn't mean that that is the way relationship conclude. After all, you can quickly verify that 80-20 = 60% of men are not single forever and never get married. ;)

  • @bearlemley

    @bearlemley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Carey Reeve Which is “our society”. The internet is mostly world wide.

  • @PhantomOtter
    @PhantomOtter5 жыл бұрын

    Man we're doomed if someone throws some mementos in there.

  • @roserubio1815
    @roserubio18154 жыл бұрын

    Imagine all the the volcanos in the universe including the other volcano in other planets O_O 😱😰

  • @BUNG_DARREN
    @BUNG_DARREN5 жыл бұрын

    Maybe this is the reason dinosaur extinct?

  • @johnathanhautz2223
    @johnathanhautz22235 жыл бұрын

    I do believe that the Permian-Triassic eruption of the Siberian Traps flood basalt was several hundred times more powerful than the Toba eruption.

  • @misterwhoami
    @misterwhoami2 жыл бұрын

    Yellowstone : "I have the strongest explosion!" Toba : "You think?" La Garita : "I, am the true supervolcano." Wah Wah Springs : " Ya'll Think so?"

  • @emersobjongeilng5785
    @emersobjongeilng57855 жыл бұрын

    The year without a summer create Frankenstein sooooo that good

  • @Dragrath1
    @Dragrath15 жыл бұрын

    In my atmospheric physics class we talked about aerosols and there is a good evidence why you can't really get a 10+ year global winter induced by light reflecting atmospheric aerosols at least without continuous renewed injections. Gravity still affects the particles that are only temporarily suspended in the air and would eventually filter out even the smallest of the particulates thrown into the atmosphere on a time scale of about 3 years. At least that seems to be how long the Chicxulub impact blocked out the sun to trigger global darkness based on samples of the crater. Which seems sufficiently long to kill most metabolically active animals except for say our small probably cashing rodent like ancestors and beaked toothless birds adapted to eat seeds. (And even then there is a strong argument that extinction might only have been made possible due to the cooccurrence of the impact while a LIP on the then Indian continent was active. Those true global extinctions all seem to require the combination of multiple major disasters simultaneously wrecking havoc to truly devastate life. At least before some two legged bipedal primates learned to become a culmination of walking ecological disasters in their short sighted exploitation of the planet.... A Volcano like Toba probably affected weather patterns and marine ecosystems where oxygen limitations come into play but so long as some photosynthisis could continue this sort of volcano is nothing compared to the real doomsday volcanoes the massive and expansive flood basalts known as Large Igneous Provinces

  • @renapundarika2135
    @renapundarika21354 жыл бұрын

    Well the Toba now is just a large lake, right? It won't suddenly become active and explode again, right? Right? * sweats *

  • @rickgringo9401
    @rickgringo94014 жыл бұрын

    I'm in toba right now.. Paradise on earth..

  • @jasonraser40
    @jasonraser404 жыл бұрын

    Mid lattitudes and poles experience major Winters. Equitorial Africa and other regions received enough sunlight to get by.

  • @Metalkatt
    @Metalkatt5 жыл бұрын

    How do these compare to the boom that destroyed Thera?

  • @jeffjefferson2853
    @jeffjefferson28534 жыл бұрын

    Wow. Hadn't even realized the bottleneck catastrophe had been more or less debunct.

  • @stilltlrforlife
    @stilltlrforlife4 жыл бұрын

    When everyone in the world participated in burrito night...that's the big one.

  • @nicholasbenn8823
    @nicholasbenn88234 жыл бұрын

    Toba Tambora Krakatau Agung Rinjani (indonesia)

  • @WanderingKakapo

    @WanderingKakapo

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, apart from toba, they all medium sized volcanos. I will leave this for you : The TVZ has been the dominant focus of volcanism in the central North Island of New Zealand since 2 Ma, and is divided into three segments on the basis of the dominant magma composition and magma fluxes. Within the 120 km x 60 km rhyolite-dominated central segment, >16 000 km3 of magma has been erupted since 1.6 Ma in >25 caldera-forming and numerous other smaller eruptions from eight volcanic centres.

  • @WALATRAHERBAL
    @WALATRAHERBAL5 жыл бұрын

    wah, Danau Toba.. :D

  • @wanrawan
    @wanrawan4 жыл бұрын

    I can not Imagine if Toba, Tambora and Krakatoa Junior erupt at the same time

  • @rizqiizzati1414

    @rizqiizzati1414

    4 жыл бұрын

    Krakatoa Junior🤣

  • @Asphyx12
    @Asphyx123 жыл бұрын

    My theory is that the toba spew so many things that mostly it's gone through the atmosphere and to the space

  • @bigrooster6893
    @bigrooster68933 жыл бұрын

    Most of the ash from a super eruption stays closer to the ground and massive amounts of lava pour out everywhere.

  • @jkm7983
    @jkm79835 жыл бұрын

    *the biggest volcanic eruption in human history* Me after eating at taco Bell

  • @chrysalizubeth88
    @chrysalizubeth885 жыл бұрын

    Nice AART reference slipped in there.

  • @glennpane8450
    @glennpane84503 жыл бұрын

    Russia:we have tsar bomba Indo:we have toba

  • @FreedomTown
    @FreedomTown5 жыл бұрын

    How is it that the more research they do the greater the uncertainty?

  • @uss_04
    @uss_045 жыл бұрын

    Can’t wait for the Sequel to Krakatoa....

  • @brandondavidson4085
    @brandondavidson40852 жыл бұрын

    Natural disasters and catastrophic events: "I will wipe out everything!" Humans, who absolutely THRIVE on adapting to new situations: "Allow us to introduce ourselves"

  • @JPITFTKD
    @JPITFTKD5 жыл бұрын

    The biggest volcanic eruption ever happened this morning. In my bathroom.

  • @JamesSavik
    @JamesSavik5 жыл бұрын

    Maybe we should take a look at Tambora and Krakatoa to get a better idea of what a super-eruption might do to a modern society. Toba was so far back we can only really make educated guesses. There are written records and actual data about the 19th century eruptions.

  • @MrGksarathy
    @MrGksarathy5 жыл бұрын

    Could the eruption have influenced human mythology and religion?

  • @christelheadington1136

    @christelheadington1136

    5 жыл бұрын

    I've read where some think the Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, was an eruption.The cities were rained on with fire and brimstone. So yes...and there are volcanic gods all over the place. Can't say that any one particular eruption did it though.

  • @AndreasMadsen

    @AndreasMadsen

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's 75000 years ago. It's very unlikely it would make it into "modern" religion given they didn't even have a written language. The local people there does not view it with any mythological or religious significance.

  • @MrGksarathy

    @MrGksarathy

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@AndreasMadsen There could be some half-forgotten, pan-human tale that distantly relates to this eruption. It could even have been preserved in Apocalypse narratives or something.

  • @AndreasMadsen

    @AndreasMadsen

    4 жыл бұрын

    @cromwell2007 you know nothing about my mind. Archaeological evidence suggests the first humans made it to Australia about 50000 years ago. Add 25000 (roughly 850 generations) thousand years to that and we are back at that particular eruption. As is said initially, it's highly unlikely that anything has made it into modern religion. Or perhaps you have some aboriginal, religious tale from 25000 thousand years before they even made it to Australia that your would like to share with us?

  • @Eck0_o0
    @Eck0_o04 жыл бұрын

    Yellowstone: I’m the biggest volcano Tambora: Yeah sure buddy I was the biggest la Garita: Hold my beer

  • @dekan27

    @dekan27

    4 жыл бұрын

    PugieToons its toba not tambora. Im pretty sure tambora is under 8 VEI just like mt. Rinjani

  • @florinsadelaida1373

    @florinsadelaida1373

    3 жыл бұрын

    La Garita's biggest eruption? IO: Hahahahahahahahaha… The IO eruption is 100% bigger and even the earth will disappear from this planet and perish forever. Earth is very small and does not align with Jupiter.

  • @raymondmega8784
    @raymondmega87842 жыл бұрын

    I ever go to lake tobacco and you say the volcano eruption Me: God mode

  • @derekwall200
    @derekwall2005 жыл бұрын

    volcanoes like Toba and yellowstone are the ones we need to watch out for. because they can cause our temperatures to dip low enough to where our most important crops like wheat, soybeans, corn, and food crops like tomatoes and other fruit and vegetable bearing plants could be killed off. if the temperature dropped to either 5 degrees C is 41 degrees or 10 degrees C which is 50 degrees that will make our overall global temperatures seem like were in late fall or early winter. not to mention that kind of eruption can throw our weather out of whack

  • @hafizajiaziz8773
    @hafizajiaziz87735 жыл бұрын

    For some reason, Indonesia is holding a lot of the records for volcanoes.

  • @redballcartoons8858
    @redballcartoons88585 жыл бұрын

    Toba be Famous Krakatoa Left The Chat

  • @draz8302
    @draz83024 жыл бұрын

    Yellowstone: I can cover half of the united states in a thick coat of ash and cover the rest of the world in a volcanic winter. Toba: i caused a massive catastrophe 75,000 years ago and wrecked havoc on the world and indonesia. Taupo: am i a joke to you

  • @toasternfriends3329

    @toasternfriends3329

    4 жыл бұрын

    These posts just get dumber and dumber and less original as the months and years pass.

  • @melissaanderson821
    @melissaanderson8212 жыл бұрын

    Weres this volcano at

  • @wildansaefulazmi2084
    @wildansaefulazmi20844 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @kyjinkun2661
    @kyjinkun26613 жыл бұрын

    I cant believe it, From the 10k population to 7M+