Toba catastrophe

Quality:

Youngest Toba eruption - volcanic supereruption 74,000 years ago in Indonesia. Article “Toba catastrophe” in Simple English Wikipedia has 38 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Toba catastrophe”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 729 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 572 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1644 in May 2014
• Global: #972 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3295 in August 2024
• Global: #11517 in January 2014

There are 13 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Youngest Toba eruption		82.0245
2	Korean (ko) 가장 최근의 토바호 분화		73.9337
3	Polish (pl) Katastrofa wulkanu Toba		61.3488
4	Tamil (ta) தோபா எரிமலை வெடிப்பு		57.0257
5	German (de) Toba-Katastrophentheorie		41.164
6	Vietnamese (vi) Thảm họa Toba		38.6402
7	Simple English (simple) Toba catastrophe		38.0098
8	Russian (ru) Тоба (вулкан)		35.3704
9	French (fr) Éruption du Toba		34.316
10	Indonesian (id) Letusan Toba Termuda		31.8306

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Youngest Toba eruption		8 545 634
2	Russian (ru) Тоба (вулкан)		572 893
3	German (de) Toba-Katastrophentheorie		472 160
4	Polish (pl) Katastrofa wulkanu Toba		203 666
5	Czech (cs) Tobská katastrofa		86 620
6	French (fr) Éruption du Toba		62 467
7	Simple English (simple) Toba catastrophe		22 524
8	Arabic (ar) نظرية كارثة توبا		21 926
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thảm họa Toba		17 806
10	Belarusian (be) Вядомыя вывяржэнні вулкана Тоба		3 211

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Youngest Toba eruption		26 932
2	Russian (ru) Тоба (вулкан)		4 443
3	German (de) Toba-Katastrophentheorie		2 315
4	Polish (pl) Katastrofa wulkanu Toba		1 465
5	French (fr) Éruption du Toba		1 134
6	Czech (cs) Tobská katastrofa		351
7	Simple English (simple) Toba catastrophe		155
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thảm họa Toba		113
9	Indonesian (id) Letusan Toba Termuda		56
10	Korean (ko) 가장 최근의 토바호 분화		54

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Youngest Toba eruption		461
2	German (de) Toba-Katastrophentheorie		96
3	Russian (ru) Тоба (вулкан)		55
4	Czech (cs) Tobská katastrofa		36
5	French (fr) Éruption du Toba		19
6	Polish (pl) Katastrofa wulkanu Toba		18
7	Vietnamese (vi) Thảm họa Toba		11
8	Belarusian (be) Вядомыя вывяржэнні вулкана Тоба		9
9	Tamil (ta) தோபா எரிமலை வெடிப்பு		7
10	Arabic (ar) نظرية كارثة توبا		5

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Youngest Toba eruption		2
2	Czech (cs) Tobská katastrofa		1
3	Russian (ru) Тоба (вулкан)		1
4	Arabic (ar) نظرية كارثة توبا		0
5	Belarusian (be) Вядомыя вывяржэнні вулкана Тоба		0
6	German (de) Toba-Katastrophentheorie		0
7	French (fr) Éruption du Toba		0
8	Indonesian (id) Letusan Toba Termuda		0
9	Korean (ko) 가장 최근의 토바호 분화		0
10	Polish (pl) Katastrofa wulkanu Toba		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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