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{{Infobox eruption
| name = Eruption of Toré
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| date = 512 CE
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| volcano = Toré
| type = [[w:Ultra-Plinian|Ultra-Plinian]]
| location = Toré, Oblivion Islands, South Concordian Ocean
| coordinates = [[File:WMA button2b.png|17px|link=]] 22.390°S 47.628°W
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| VEI = 8
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| impact = Global volcanic winter and famine
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The '''Toré eruption''' of Toré Volcano, in the [[New Leganes|Oblivion Islands]] was the world's most recent VEI 8 supereruption in 512 CE, and largest [[Wikipedia:Plinian eruption|ultra-plinian]] [[Wikipedia:Phreatic eruption|phreatic eruption]] for over thirty thousand years. The eruption destroyed [[Peragen#Impelanza|Impelanza]], ravaged civilisations nearby and across the world in various ways, notably by its ash clouds blocking out the sun and causing a moderate global [[Wikipedia:Volcanic winter|volcanic winter]].
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