Credit: NASA Expedition 20 crew / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In the remote archipelago of the Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia), Mount Tambora, an imposing stratovolcano that before 1815 reached ...

In 1815, Indonesia's Mount Tambora volcano erupted, creating unprecedented hell. The Mount Tambora eruption has since been recorded as the most powerful volcanic eruption ever recorded.

In April 1815, the eruption of Tambora Volcano in Indonesia — one of the largest in recorded history — blasted ash and gases into the atmosphere purportedly causing widespread cooling and crop ...

Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano exploded in the most powerful eruption in recorded history, sending an enormous plume of tiny sun-reflecting particles high into ...

Unlike the 'Year Without a Summer' that followed Tambora's eruption, a 21st-century mega-volcano would add to the disruptions already caused by humanity's reliance on fossil fuels. 'The effects ...

Krakatoa (1883) Death toll: 36,000 The eruption cast so much dust into the atmosphere, it cooled the entire globe by an average of 2.1 ºF. Mount Tambora (1815) Death toll: 90,000 The volcano ...

The awakening of Krakatau in 1883 was one of the deadliest volcanic eruptions in modern history, second only to the eruption of Tambora in 1815, which killed 60,000 people. Its effects were felt all ...

Nearly two centuries after a massive volcanic eruption ... Zavaritskii’s eruption is now recognised as one of the most powerful of the 19th century, alongside Mount Tambora in Indonesia (1815 ...

Tambora unleashed ... and lethal series of eruptions in recorded history. The blasts propelled rock and ash perhaps 25 miles into the sky above the island of Sumbawa. Volcanic gases, including ...

Narrator: In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted in Indonesia ... So if all the supervolcanoes go off at once, volcanic debris would spread across the globe. When the eruption ends, the disaster will ...