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Around 74,000 years ago, the Toba supervolcano erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It was the biggest volcanic eruption of the last 2 million years, unleashing 2,800 cubic kilometres of magma. That’s enough to bury the entire United States in a foot-thick layer of ash & rock.

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