The threat of a massive volcanic eruption capable of wiping out cities and causing global devastation is becoming increasingly urgent. Such rare events have the power to alter climates, disrupt food ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tambora's impact was global, as volcanic ash and aerosols rose high into the stratosphere, filtering out sunlight and heat. Abnormally cold weather the following year caused crop failures as far ...

it cooled the entire globe by an average of 2.1 ºF. Mount Tambora (1815) Death toll: 90,000 The volcano literally blew its top off. More from Science ...

Like volcanic islands such as the Galapagos ... Narrator: In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted in Indonesia, killing an estimated 92,000 people. It was the biggest eruption in recorded history.

Nearly two centuries after a massive volcanic eruption cooled Earth’s ... of the most powerful of the 19th century, alongside Mount Tambora in Indonesia (1815) and Cosegüina in Nicaragua ...

The Ring of Fire is also where an estimated 75% of the planet’s volcanoes are located, such as Mount Tambora of Indonesia, which erupted in 1815 and became the largest volcanic eruption in ...

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 ...