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Right now we formed a forum about Lake Toba Sustainability. Our institution concerned about destruction in lake Toba. Most of us came from Bataknese and people who take attention seriously to Lake Toba Ecosystem. Indonesian goverment, especially North SUmatera province in march invite more than a houndred govenoor from all of the world. They plan to establish ne concept about Lake Toba in the future. But at the other side, the concept they have planed does not invite people in the ecosystem. we predict that mot of the masterplan does not conduct local sociocultural aspects. They just make Lake Toba as they want without hear public interest. we plan to make the similiar summit as the goverment planed to, but in different way. we plan to invite all local traditional leader to join a summit paralel with the goverment.

everybody who want joining our program will be invited.

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Contents 1 Relevant? 2 Different, Lake Toba and Mount Toba 3 Toba catastrophe theory 4 Meaning 5 Biggest for how long

[edit] Relevant?

I'm sorry but is this relevant to the page? It seems more like a propaganda of some sort

[edit] Different, Lake Toba and Mount Toba

The past Mount Toba, with ancient history.

Present, Lake Toba with more other history, with Samosir Island on the center.

Isn't same article.

[edit] Toba catastrophe theory

The Toba catastrophe theory is linked to as the "main article" in the eruption section. The problem is that that article isn't really about the eruption but the theory of the eruption's impact on the development of man. As such, the article should be mentioned, but not as the main article with respect to that section. -Harmil 07:24, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and made the change.[1] -Harmil 07:36, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meaning

"toba" is Spanish for tuff. I suspect it is a coincidence, but what is the Indonesian meaning? --84.20.17.84 13:04, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Biggest for how long

Somebody has stated that this (Young Toba eruption) is the biggest in the last in the last 2 million years. I have looked for bigger eruptions futher back and so far no eruption has surpassed it since around 27 million years ago so doesn't that make it the biggest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years? Wiki235 16:49, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

The 2 mya statement may have come from the Volcano World page cited in the following paragraph (which incidentally has a horribly misleading size graphic). I'd agree with your statement if we restrict it to explosive eruptions; the Columbia River Basalt Group which erupted from 17 to 6 million years ago is much larger, and there could have been individual eruptions within it that were larger than Toba. Toba is the largest explosive eruption listed by Mason, Pyle and Oppenheimer (2004 - citation below) since 27-28 million years ago. If no one objects, I'll change our article accordingly. -- Avenue 02:32, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Ben G. Mason; David M. Pyle, and Clive Oppenheimer (2004). "The size and frequency of the largest explosive eruptions on Earth". Bulletin of Volcanology 66 (8): 735–748. doi:10.1007/s00445-004-0355-9. 

Well seeing as no explosive eruption since La Garita has surpassed Toba I'll put that in. Wiki235 13:05, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Somebody has put in that it was possibly the largest explosive vlcanic eruption withtin the history of the earth. This is incorrect. The eruption produced 2800 cubic km of material where as the La Garita eruption 27.5 million years ago produced 5000 cubic km which makes it larger. Please don't add claims that are not true.Wiki235 (talk) 20:54, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Why is one of the photographs in the article captioned 'Lake Toba from the island of Prapat?' The maps I see show Prapat being on the periphery of the lake, not an island. Deedeebee (talk) 20:13, 1 February 2008 (UTC)