Great Catastrophe
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The Toba catastrophe, also referred to as the Toba 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. The related catastrophe theory holds that this supervolcanic event plunged the planet into a 6 to 10-year volcanic winter, which resulted in the world's human population being reduced to 10,000 or even a mere 1,000 breeding pairs, creating a bottleneck in human evolution. Some researchers argue that the Toba eruption produced not only a catastrophic volcanic winter, but also an additional 1,000-year cooling episode.
In his Truth files, Subject 16 indicates that this catastrophe was not a supereruption, but instead was the result of solar activity that decimated Earth, considerably reduced the human population and precipitated the extinction of Those Who Came Before. A holographic projection within The Vault and subsequent speculation by Lucy Stillman suggests that the solar activity in question was a massive solar flare, which reversed the weakening magnetic poles of the Earth and caused significant geological instability.[1]