Lake Toba is a volcanic lake with a length of 100 kilometers and wide of 30 kilometers, located in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. This lake is the largest lake in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. In the middle of this lake there is a volcanic island called the samosir island.
Lake Toba has long been an important tourist destination in North Sumatra, in addition to Bukit Lawang and Nias, attract domestic and foreign tourists.
It is estimated that Lake Toba because of occurred explosion about 73000-75000 years ago and is a Supervolcano eruption (super volcano) the most recent. Bill Rose and Craig Chesner of Michigan Technological University estimate that volcanic materials spewed out of the mountain as much as 2800 km ³, with 800 km ³ of rock overlies and 2,000 km ³ the volcanic ash which is expected in the wind to the west for 2 weeks. Volcanic dust has spread to half the earth because of the wind, from China to South Africa. The explosion occurred during a week and throw the dust up to 10 km above sea level.
Very beautiful instead of Lake Toba. Indonesia Country has a lot of natural beauty. let's keep our nature.
Keep spirit!!!
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