Indonesia is home to the world's largest-ever volcanic eruption — Mount Tambora in 1815, killing 100,000 people. But the disaster is little remembered, primarily because of lack of media.

On this day in April 1815, on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa just east of Java and Bali, the 14,000-foot-high Mount Tambora exploded and collapsed upon itself.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, seen in this 2011 aerial photo, was the one of the most devastating in world history.

In 1815, the Tambora volcano, which was 20 times the size of Mount Vesuvius, erupted in Indonesia. It is estimated that over 71,000 people died. It left a crater 3.7 miles wide and 3600 feet deep!

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