What was the name of the huge volcano that erupted?
You may be referring to Toba. “According to the Toba catastrophe theory, 70,000 to 75,000 years ago a supervolcanic event at Lake Toba, on Sumatra, reduced the world’s human population to 10,000 or even a mere 1,000 breeding pairs, creating a bottleneck in human evolution.” “This explosion cannot be compared with anything that has been experienced on Earth since the time when humans could walk upright. Compared to the eruption on the super volcano Toba, even Krakatoa, with its tens of thousands of deaths in 1883, was a tiny belch. Alongside gigantic Tsunami waves, there was the unimaginable amount of 2800 cubic kilometres of ejected ash, which, evenly spread throughout our planet s atmosphere, should have reduced the total number of humans to just 5000 to 10,000 survivors, as the Australian vulcanologist Prof. Ray Cas explains in an interview: “The suns rays only weakly reached the ground all around the globe, plants received too little light, the average temperature dropped to 5 degre
