The Toba catastrophe, sometimes also known as the First Disaster, was a cataclysmic event during human prehistory, dated to 75000 BCE, which saw the near total extinction of both humanity and the First Civilization, who were involved in a military conflict at the time. In modern times, the disaster was often misconceived to have been the eruption of a super-volcano, but was in actuality caused by a coronal mass ejection. A second, equally powerful, but ultimately less destructive coronal mass ejection took place in the year 2012.