BBC Wild Nature: Sumatra - Volcanic Crater Toba - Indonesian Fire Islands

[Ginga030294]

If Toba Supervolcano was Exloded, So Prepeare yourself from that lava and prepare for 2nd Ice Age started.

[Ginga030294]

I'm Indonesian, So I'm the most fright about Toba Supervolcano, Ilive in Java Asland, so I didn't must very fright...Good Night!

[BlackLeviathan16]

Great!!!

[molceonly]

somehow BBC is missing one small spot in TOBA region, there is an active small volcano located not too far from Tomok. the area are well known by local and foreign tourist where to get hot spring well.

i'm going back to toba to dig my 500 carat diamond... hahaha

[phillyfan75]

toba wasnt really a volcana

[lifesaach]

@phillyfan75 it wasn't a volcano, it was a super volcano..

just hope it will not erupt again, because we,hundreds of thousand of our people (the Batak tribe) live on the crater/caldera and surround . there still natural hot water and sulfur there come up from the ground..

[MrCountrycuz]

I would like to know why if this eruption caused such a drastic temperature drop and created such a massive tidal wave please explain how the delicate ecosystems of Australia and its unique fauna managed to survive this deluge?

The did not evolve and populate Australia in the last 80k years from scratch now did they?

[PaulStaffie]

dotn worry, in geological terms a "not too distant future" is probably about 100,000 - 1million years.

[Yoetah]

really, wow good to know

[THEUPTOWNKID181]

@PaulStaffie Thanks. I guess I can still get that time shae in Boca! :-)

[LuvsTstormTapes]

When I heard of Yellowstone possibly doing what Toba did on the 'History Channel' 11/1/09......I nearly threw up and got sick for days stewing about this...... as some of us remember what Mt. Pinatubo ((Philippines)) did on 6/15/91...caused 2 years of that **ugly** global haze.... it would take 100 Pinatubo's to catch up with Toba and possibly 1000 Pinatubo's to match Yellowstone...hopefully, HOPEFULLY not during our own lifetime!!! Pretty please~~!!!

[MaxSafeheaD]

@LuvsTstormTapes

The toba eruption was approximately three times that which yellowstone is capable of.

[SamMitchell90]

@MaxSafeheaD

Wrong actually. Toba's eruption ejected roughly 2800 cubic km of magma, Yellowstone's Huckleberry Ridge eruption 2.1 million years ago ejected 2500.

But Yellowstone actually has the capacity of 25,000 cubic km of magma, the largest of any volcano on earth.

[jackelify]

@SamMitchell90 Wrong , it maybe the largest known but not the largest one unknown,actually toba could hold from the range of 12,900 km cubic of magma to 50,000 so it could be bigger than yellowstone.

[arroy624]

forget about global warming. one of these and the one in yellowstone would fix everything.

[THEUPTOWNKID181]

@arroy624 LOL CORRECT.

No more carbon tax. or any type of tax for that matter.

[darkpie555]

ok people's comments are starting to scare me :[ especially swordfighter3 waah.. :[

[305barclay]

didnt this blow up a few days ago?

[tuakx]

hang on!!! so it is save to live in lake toba?? because this bloody volcano things make tourist not visited lake toba, some people just to scare, i mean MEDIA dont think what would be the effect for the tourism industri in lake toba! this is bull s..t !!

[molceonly]

i don't know about BBC rsearch but. they miss a spot on toba section. upper north-east there is a small volcano left over from Toba which is not fully active yet but it's on... the volcano is alive. people use that area to bath.... that may considered as new science project....

[dark2200]

BOOOOOOOOOOMMM!

[swordfighter3]

its almost mind blowing that we humans were actually down to a mere 1,000 to 10,000 population, this eruption almost put us next to the dinosaurs!

[snakevidal]

no boy thats not the power of nature but its a nature catastrofi mostly the earth itself is doing it but not nature :/

[NewColdness]

where does earth end and nature begin?

[DEQVF]

always amazed with the power of nature !!!