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This weekend’s posts are brief, as I am finishing up my Amazon Vella project.

To focus on news with this Sunday Morning Volcano would be to focus on Mount Marapi’s recent eruption in southern Sumatra.

But that was a tragedy and has already been covered in depth.

After any tragedy comes recovery, painful as that is.

So let’s keep to the “supereruption aftermath” theme this Sunday and look at how the island’s northern region has recovered from the last big blast of its resident supervolcano: Toba.

Its caldera now hosts our planet’s largest crater lake:

It’s hard to believe that this is the site of “…four eruptive events from the Toba caldera complex over the past 1.2 m.y. Ash-flow tuffs were erupted from the complex every 0.34 to 0.43 m.y., culminating with the enormous (2500-3000 km3) Youngest Toba tuff eruption, caldera formation…” (Source)

Thus life comes and goes and comes again on Planet Earth.

Sometimes with a little help from one’s friends.

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Featured image: Juwantry Bart Silalahi/Shutterstock

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