
Episode 124: Volcanoes
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Largest Explosive Eruption on Earth in the Last 25 Million Years
The largest explosive eruption on earth in the last 25 million years occurred at tober lake, or lake tober, in indanitia. It caused so much of a volcanic winter effect that it decreased world wide temperature between three to five degrees and in higher latitudes, up to 15 degrees. The theory called tober catastrophe theory says that this eruption, again, about 74 thousand years ago, caused dramatic consequences of humanp ation,. such that it killed almost all the humans who were alive at the time.
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