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How is Javascript single threaded?

I have a question about the single threaded nature of Javascript.

console.log("1");setTimeout(function(){console.log("2");},3000);console.log("3");setTimeout(function(){console.log("4");},1000);

The result of this code is 1 3 4 2. As you see, 4 comes after 2 which makes me wonder that in a single threaded environment shouldn't 2 have come after 4? If not, then how come JS knows the second setTimeout should finish before the first one? Shouldn't there be two threads which work concurrently to complete the two setTimeouts in order to notify EventLoop?


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