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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A massive eruption at Lake Toba supervolcano will occur again, but it is unlikely to happen for thousands of years, scientists have said. A model has shown how a large magma reservoir is growing ...

The first humans arrived in Indonesia thousands of years before previously thought—which could mean they were present for an eruption at the Lake Toba supervolcano just over 71,000 years ago.

A Supersized Volcano. Beginning in 1949, when Dutch geologist Rein van Bemmelen discovered massive deposits of volcanic rock along the perimeter of Lake Toba on the Indonesian island of Sumatra ...

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.