The Lake Toba Supervolcano: Humanity's Extinction Event

In case 2020 hasn't provided you with enough evidence that all human civilization could definitely be wiped out by one calamitous event, then here's a profile on a known supervolcano in Sumatra that has already annihilated the Earth as we know it once in human history.

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Source/Further reading:

National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/did-early-humans-in-india-survive-a-supervolcano/

Did Toba have much affect? https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/supervolcano-goes-boom-humans-go-meh/555356/

Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/ancient-campsite-shows-humans-surviving-a-massive-volcanic-eruption/

Comparing notable eruptions: https://geology.com/stories/13/volcanic-explosivity-index/

NYT Supervolcanoes: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/science/toba-supervolcano-supereruption.html

Podcast on Toba eruption: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/natural-disasters-1/toba-supervolcano/

Human arrival in Sumatra: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/were-modern-humans-in-indonesia-73-000-years-ago

Toba deforestation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018209004271

Acid rain at Poles: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/11/121107-toba-supervolcano-antarctica-ice-eruption-science

BBC, modern impact of supervolcano: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170724-would-a-supervolcano-eruption-wipe-us-out

NASA’s plan to save us all from a supervolcano: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170817-nasas-ambitious-plan-to-save-earth-from-a-supervolcano

Tambora Eruption: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/blast-from-the-past-65102374

Tambora: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/tambora-1815-just-big-eruption

Krakatoa: http://nautil.us/blog/the-sound-so-loud-that-it-circled-the-earth-four-times

Yellowstone: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/questions-about-yellowstone-volcanic-history

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