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The Toba Catastrophe refers to a theory explaining a suspected sharp decline in human population levels sometime between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago.
A volcanic supereruption occurred between 69,000 and 77,000 years ago at Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia. It is recognized as one of Earth's largest known eruptions. This supervolcanic event plunged the Earth into a 6 to 10-year volcanic winter. Some researchers argue that the Toba eruption produced not only a catastrophic volcanic winter, but also an additional 1,000-year cooling episode.
The catastrophe theory holds that the subsequent climate changes created an extreme bottleneck in the human population, resulting in the world's human population being reduced to 10,000 or even a mere 1,000 breeding pairs. As the population recovered, humanity began migrating away from Africa, eventually colonizing much of the world.
Subject 16 suggested that the extreme reduction in the human population had not been the result of the Toba supereruption.[1] Jupiter later confirmed that a massive solar flare had struck Earth in the distant past, causing worldwide lightening storms, earthquakes, and deep fissures in the planet's surface. Less than 10,000 humans, and far fewer of Those Who Came Before, survived the disaster.[2]
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