Rimming the volcano caldera of Lake Toba are some small towns, with Parapat being the jumping off point to the large island in the middle of the lake. The island is called Samosir, and it's almost the ...

Lake Toba is one of the worlds' biggest calderas, measuring 35km by 100km. An eruption 74,000 years ago was one of the biggest in history, ejecting 2,800km3 of material.

A dormant supervolcano lying beneath Lake Toba in Indonesia has the potential to erupt again, scientists have said. Geologists believe Mount Toba, which has erupted at fairly regular intervals ...

Beneath the tranquil waters of Indonesia’s Lake Toba lies one of the most colossal and dangerous supervolcanoes on Earth, capable of triggering super eruptions with global climatic consequences ...

Simple: It erupts. This mountain on Sumatra unleashed an utterly massive volcano eruption 75,000 years ago. For perspective, it was the largest eruption in the last 25 million years. And so today, ...

LAKE TOBA, Indonesia — The ground still occasionally trembles here, a reminder of the active volcano below that last erupted 75,000 years ago and blasted a crater out of the earth the size of ...

Rescuers searching Tuesday for dozens of people missing after a ferry sank on Indonesia's Lake Toba have found bags, jackets, an ID card and other items in the waters but no new survivors, casting ...

The 440-square-mile Lake Toba, formed out of an ancient super volcano, is a popular sightseeing destination on the island of Sumatra. It's more than 1,312 feet deep.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Tourism Ministry will intensively promote Lake Toba as Wonderful Indonesia and Pesona Indonesia through Lake Toba Festival (FDT) that will be held at Brastagi, Karo Regency, ...